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Effective Web Performance: The Wrong 80 Percent
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10 Sep 2009Steve Souders is the current king of Web performance gurus. His mantra, which is sound and can be borne out by empirical evidence, is that 80% of performance issues occur between the Web server and the Web browser. He offers a fantastically detailed methodology for approaching these issues.
But fixing the 80% of performance issues that [...]
Effective Web Performance: What to Manage
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28 Aug 2009One of the traditional areas of frustration for Operations and Development teams in the Web world is that their performance, Web performance, is measured from the outside-in.
The resistance of this camp is strong, and they will appear without warning, even from amongst the most enlightened of companies.
How can they be recognized?
You will hear their battle-cry, [...]
Effective Web Performance: Measurement-First or CDN-First?
In: Effective Web Performance| Internet| Technology| The Web| Web Performance
25 Aug 2009A hallway conversation this morning brought up a very interesting point about the relationship between Web performance measurements and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). When choosing between a Web performance measurement solution and a CDN, which service should come first?
Companies facing dire and obvious Web performance issues will want immediate results, leading them to fall into [...]
Effective Web Performance: Third-Party Providers (Or Why Herding Cats is Fun)
In: Blogging| Effective Web Performance| Internet| Technology| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics| branding| business
18 Aug 2009It’s a rare Web site these days that hosts all of its own content. From the smallest blog to the largest retailer, Web sites farm out their images, streams, and pages to CDNs, and absorb feeds, ads, and data streams from any number of outside providers.
Effective Web performance demands that a site take responsibility for [...]
Effective Web Performance: Positively Managing Performance Issues
In: Effective Web Performance| Internet| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| Wireless| analytics| business
17 Aug 2009The moment a Web site goes live, the publishers lose control of the performance.
When I say lose control of the performance, I mean that despite everything that has been done to ensure scalability and capacity, the Web is inherently an infrastructure that is out of anyone’s direct ability to manage.
This is something that needs to [...]
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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 [...]
The Loss of Blogging Voice, or Why I removed the Ads from my Blog
In: Blogging| Commentary| The Web| Web analytics| advertising| analytics| branding| reputation| social media
11 Aug 2009I have had advertising on my blog for as long as I can remember. Except for the period of time when I hosted the site at Wordpress.com, I have always had AdSense, Chitika, or some other ad services content being contextually presented to my visitors.
Frankly, I found having ads up on my site extremely hypocritical, [...]
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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Web Performance: How long can you ignore the money?
In: Technology| The Web| Web Performance| WebPerformance.Org| business
3 Aug 2009Web performance is everywhere. People intuitively understand that when a site is slow, something’s wrong. Web performance breeds anecdotal tales of lost carts, broken catalogs, and searches gone wrong. Web performance can get you name in lights, but not in the way you or your company would like.
It’s a mistake to consider Web performance a [...]
Effective Web Performance: An Introduction and A Manifesto
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19 Aug 2009Every so often, you wake up and realize that the world has changed around you. Or, to say it better, your view of the world has changed so profoundly, but also so subtly and slowly that it is imperceptible unless you take the time to look back at where you came from.
Six years ago, if [...]