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Effective Web Performance: Choosing a CDN
In: Effective Web Performance| Internet| Web Performance| Web analytics| WebPerformance.Org| analytics| business
13 Aug 2009Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are a key component to any Web performance strategy. If you examine the content from any large online business or media provider, it won’t take long to find the objects that these organizations have entrusted to CDNs to ensure faster delivery and a better user experience.
When working with CDNs, it is [...]
Effective Web Performance
In: Effective Web Performance| Internet| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| WebPerformance.Org| business
12 Aug 2009Slap up some measurements. Look at some graphs. Make a few calls. Your site is faster. You’re a hero.
Right.
Effective Web performance is something that requires planning, preparation, execution, and the willingness to try more than once to get things right. I have discussed this problem before, but wanted to expand my thoughts into some steps [...]
Web Performance: On the edge of performance
In: GrabPERF| Internet| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics| smp
10 Aug 2009A decade of working in the Web performance industry can leave one with the idea that no matter how good a site is, there is always the opportunity to be better, be faster. However, I am beginning to believe, just from my personal experience on the Internet, that speed has reached its peak with the [...]
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Do you need a smartphone?
In: Internet| Mobile| Technology
7 Aug 2009In the rush to the mobile computing era, what is often lost by advocates of this technology are the actual needs of the modern mobile consumer. Do most users need to have a handheld computer with them at all times? Is that what they desire? What does the market say?
In March 2009, 23% of mobile [...]
Browser Wars: July was not a month for revolutions
In: Browsers| Internet| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics
29 Jul 2009Once again it is time to analyze browser usage in the US for the last month. July saw the appearance of Firefox 3.5, which has replicated the pattern seen with Internet Explorer 8, where it supplants the previous version slowly and linearly as people get around to upgrading.
Can MSIE 8 overtake MSIE 7 in August? [...]
Browser Wars: June was an interesting month
In: Browsers| Internet| Software| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics
1 Jul 2009June is one of my favorite months. The sun returns (although in the Boston area there are concerned that it has been replaced by clouds and humidity), the kids get out of school (and get sent to camp), and the outdoor pool opens (and I actually swim in it).
In the US browser market, Internet Explorer [...]
Browser Wars – Internet Explorer 7 Use Collapses in the US
In: Browsers| Internet| Technology| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics
11 Jun 2009I have been monitoring this trend for a couple of weeks to see if it remained constant, and it appears to be a real thing. Since the end of May 2009, Internet Explorer 7’s browser share in the US has collapsed, with a requisite increase in the use of Firefox 3.0.
This is a staggering change. [...]
Browser Wars: The Slow Rise of Internet Explorer 8
In: Browsers| Internet| Software| Technology| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics
11 May 2009Since its GA release on March 19 and its addition to Windows Update in late April, Internet Explorer 8 has been gradually increasing its market share in the US. Based on the current growth pattern in StatCounter’s GlobalStats data, it appears that Internet Explorer 8 will overtake Internet Explorer 6 sometime in late May or [...]
Browser Wars: Why Internet Explorer 6 Still Exists
In: Browsers| Internet| Software| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics
2 May 2009At CNet News today, the article What browser wars? The enterprise still loves IE 6 nicely sums all the reasons that Internet Explorer 6 is still in use in enterprise environments. The dominance of Internet Explorer 6 in the workplace is something I discussed a few days ago, supported by the pattern of higher weekday [...]
Browser Wars: Internet Explorer 8.0 Released on Windows Update
In: Browsers| Internet| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics
29 Apr 2009While I was performing my standard Windows Update on my work virtual machine this morning, I wondered if the promised Internet Explorer 8.0 release to Windows Update had been dropped.
I switched to my test-bed, vanilla Windows XP virtual machine, ran Windows Update, and PING! Up it came. The masses of people who blindly do what [...]