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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: 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: 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 [...]
Browsers and Affect on Revenue
In: Browsers| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| WebPerformance.Org| analytics
24 Mar 2009A great follow-up to my post on Browser Stats is this slide deck from Gomez on Online Revenue and Browsers Performance.
Protect Your Online Revenue – Best Practices For Ensuring Your Web Applications Perform Across Browsers
NB: I do work for Gomez.
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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 [...]
New Domains Pointed to Newest Industry
In: Browsers| Internet| Web Performance| Web analytics| WebPerformance.Org
17 Mar 2009For a number of years, I have owned three very popular domain names: WebPerformance.org, WebCaching.org, and WebCompression.org. Last night, after many days of consideration, I stopped pointing them at their own distinct Web space and pointed them at this blog.
This is not a bad or evil thing, considering that for at least 18 months, the [...]
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GrabPERF Maintenance – March 5 2009, Part 2
5 Mar 2009One additional changes was made to GrabPERF today. The homepage with the Top and Bottom Performers, has been changed from a dynamic page to one that is autogenerated every two minutes. This graph should explain why.
The dynamic page was starting to push 20-25 seconds just for the Top 20 List. When I switched to the [...]
GrabPERF Retail Web Performance Index
4 Mar 2009The GrabPERF Retail Web Performance Index is an extension of the Holiday Performance Index created for the Black Friday/Cyber Monday craze in 2008.
There is a methodology statement explaining more about the index below the data table.
Please add any comments or questions to this post.
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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 [...]