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GrabPERF Agent Update – DNS
In: GrabPERF| The Web| Web Performance| search
24 Mar 2009This afternoon, the two GrabPERF Agents at Technorati were switched back to using their local copies of caching BIND for resolving DNS entries.
Some folks at Microsoft who stopped by to look at their results on the Search Performance Index noticed that there were one or two outliers in the results from these locations. When I [...]
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- Tags: caching, DNS, Eric Schurman, Live Search
Search Referrer Stats – March 21 2009
In: Web analytics| analytics| search
22 Mar 2009Via Statcounter, here is my search engine distribution for a log of 2,000 hits.
With statistics like these, is there really any point in having other search engines?
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GrabPERF Search Index – March 13-19 2009
In: Internet| Web Performance| Web analytics| WebPerformance.Org| analytics| performance index| search
20 Mar 2009About four years ago, I published/posted a number of indices related to GrabPERF data. This is a re-launch of that, starting with the GrabPERF Search Performance Index.
The methodology of the Search Performance Index is straightforward: A number of key search providers are selected and HTTP GET requests are sent that directly pull the results page [...]
GrabPERF – Search Performance Index
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance| search
16 Mar 2009Today I would like to announce the availability of the GrabPERF Search Performance Index.
The goal of the index is to provide performance metrics for a group of search providers around the world. The results are based on a direct HTTP GET request being made for the search results page by the GrabPERF Agent.
Currently only live [...]
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- Tags: Altavista, Amazon, Ask, Ask.com, Baidu, Bloglines, Cuil, Google, HTTP, search, search providers, search results, Technorati, Yahoo!