Posts Tagged ‘analysis

Since I started self-hosting this blog again on August 6 2008, I have been trying to find more ways to pull traffic toward the content that I put up. Like all bloggers, I feel that I have important things to say (at least in the area of Web performance), and ideas that should be read [...]

In the realm of Web performance measurement and monitoring, one of the eternal and ever-present questions remains “What is fast?”. The simple fact is that there is no single answer for this question, as it it isn’t a question with one quantitative answer that encompasses all the varied scenarios that are presented to the Web [...]

Part of the problem with making a lot of East to West trips across the US is that the flights back are a nightmare for timing. You either lose most of a day or have to take a red-eye.
Well, taking the red-eye has only one advantage: you get to camp in the airline lounge and [...]

In this series, the focus has been on the basic Web performance concepts, the ones that have dominated the performance management field for the last decade. It’s now time to step beyond these measures, and examine two equally important concepts, ones that allow a company to analyze their Web performance outside the constraints of performance [...]

In the last article in this series, the concept of baselining your measurements was discussed. This is vital, in order for you and your organization to be able to identify the particular performance patterns associated with your site.
Now that’s under control, you’re done, right?
Not a chance. Remember that your site is not the only Web [...]

I have a shiny new Canadian passport that I want to fill with stamps.
Anyone in London need a Web performance analysis from an expert in the field? A detailed examination of your site and a comparison with other national, regional and internationl competitors, complete with a rockin’ statistical breakdown of key metrics?
Daddy needs some airline [...]

You’ll notice that I have added the SiteMeter and StatCounter logos to the sidebar. Yes, I am a stats freak, but I also wanted to monitor how quickly each of these two services can deliver a page of basic stats to someone who clicks on the links.
So far, you can see the performance difference here.
I [...]

Yes, I know. For the fourth time in a week, this is a post with a link to my resume.
But last night, while I was writing an e-mail to someone about the long-term future of GrabPERF, I wrote something that I had to read twice when it came out.
GrabPERF is my resume.
How can a simple [...]

Dave Sifry released a state of the search post yesterday. Between re-building my laptop and getting a client project out, I missed the original post.[here]
Thanks Dave! And continued success.

Technorati: Technorati, Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis
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Ping-O-Matic. Weblogs.com.
Two of the sites that have seen surges in Web traffic recently.
My unsubstantiated theory is that as summer ends, Web traffic is seeing its usual surge, amplified by the new interest in blogs and Web 2.0 properties.
For the small companies who have effectively had the summer off, it’s time to re-adjust your capacity-planning estimates…upward.
Why? [...]


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Stephen Pierzchala is one of a 10-year veteran of the Web performance field who also writes on topics that interest his non-linear world-view.

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