Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
It’s not often as a Web performance consulatant and analyst that I find a book that is useful to so many clients. It’s much more rare to discover a book that can help most Web sites improve their response times and consistency in fewer than 140 pages.
Steve Souders’ High Performance Web Sites (O’Reilly, 2007 – [...]
In: GrabPERF
12 Aug 2007It has been at least a year since I last updated everyone on the state of GrabPERF. That’s because for most of the last year, the system has been rolling along without a hitch or a major systemic change. The last major change to the agent code was alomost exactly a year ago, when I [...]
In: Life
30 Nov 2006Just went online and thought I would share the Yahoo TV comments so far.
Rushi’s Ramblings
Jason Blogs
Paul Kedrosky
Dave Winer
RowdyData
Oh, and my comments.
Yahoo, please give us an opt-out on this monstrosity. Or better yet, do a complete rollback.
Technorati Tags: Yahoo, Yahoo+TV, Bad+Design, Web+2.0, Bad+upgrade
Looks like Yahoo TV upgraded overnight.
Guess I will get my TV schedule information from other sources now.
DHTML/AJAX Schedule is slow and confusing.
Front page looks like a Flash designer got lucky — Look at all the dancing images!
Complex, complicated, and visually disturbing.
Oh, and no option to downgrade to the original, functional version.
All I want is the [...]
In: Life
10 Oct 2006Ok Web performance gurus, I have been out-cooled by someone I work with. Ryan Breen, VP of Technology at Gomez and overall uber-geek, has managed to register AJAX Performance and has a blog up there that talks all about the freaky twisted goodness of making your AJAX behave.
Ryan knows way more about making apps behave; [...]
AJAX is an amazing bit of technology, and a boon to Web performance.
The question is, how do you accurately measure it?
Now, from the perspective of synthetic transaction measurement, AJAX destroys the foundational concept of the “Page”, as it is built on the concept of the “sequence”. “Pages” assume a whole new HTML document is loaded [...]
In: Web Performance
17 Feb 2006Or so it seems from this article!
Makes sense if you think of it. Only part of the page is updated, so less bandwidth is used. And if you compress that data as well, you save even more.
Maybe AJAX is not just a novelty.
Technorati Tags: Web performance, Webperformanceinc, AJAX
UPDATE [Feb 17 2006]: Some great additional articles [...]
In: smp
8 Oct 2005Ok, I thought I was missing something about the Google Feed Reader. I thought it was clumsy and flashy and mostly usefless for the way I read blogs.
Chris Selland makes me feel less alone. [here]
Paul Kedrosky is not amused. [here]
Brad Hill says interesting, but call me when you’re ready. [here]
Bud at The Community Engine says [...]
In: smp
7 Oct 2005Lifehacker points us all to Mayomi.
Ajax Rocks
MindJet better buy these guys quick or they will lose a lot of us who can’t afford MindManager
Technorati: mindmapping, ajax
IceRocket: mindmapping, ajax