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If you have Wordpress, Use WP Super Cache
In: Blogging| GrabPERF| Internet| Web Performance
11 Sep 2009I just did a quick experiment to validate my hunch, and it’s true – WP Super Cache can cut your HTML load time in half in your WP deployment. Just check out the GrabPERF Measurement that backs this up.
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Effective Web Performance: The Wrong 80 Percent
In: Effective Web Performance| Internet| Technology| The Web| Web Performance
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
In: Effective Web Performance| Internet| Technology| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| Web performance concepts
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: The Culture of Performance
In: Effective Web Performance| Internet| Technology| Web Performance| Web analytics| WebPerformance.Org| analytics
17 Aug 2009A quote from Avinash Kaushik (Occam’s Razor and @avinashkaushik) to start this post.
I have a 10/90 rule . If your budget is $100 then spend $10 on tools and professional services to implement them, and spend $90 on hiring people to analyze data you collect on your website.
The web is quite complex, you are going [...]
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: 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 [...]
Effective Web Performance: An Introduction and A Manifesto
In: Blogging| Browsers| Commentary| Effective Web Performance| Internet| Technology| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| WebPerformance.Org| analytics
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 [...]