Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: GrabPERF
11 Jul 2005HTTP Compression is a well-acknowledged way to improve Web performance and decrease bandwidth usage by compressing text content before transmitting it to the client. This has become an increasingly interesting topic for Web 2.0 sites starting to experience their first growth pains.
COMPANY
COMPRESSION
Technorati
NO
Flickr
NO
Wikipedia
YES
Blogger
YES
Feedster
NO
Bloglines
YES
Gizmodo
YES
TypePad
YES
Weblogs INC
NO
Scripting News
NO
Memeorandum
NO
The sample above is far from representative. However, I would have thought [...]
In: smp
6 Jul 2005I have discovered a little secret of Linux today: tc. The Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control project (here) allows you to shape traffic in any way that you want. In most cases, it is used in a situation where a multi-homed Linux box is used as firewall/router.
I have activated it on my Web server, [...]
In: smp
2 Jul 2005As I discussed in this post, iTunes 4.9 was starting to cause some serious bandwidth issues for podcasters.
Geek News Central reports that iTunes appears to be be pulling some podcasts from a centralized cache server. [here]
This post also states that Apple has not told anyone that this is the case, let alone informing podcasters about [...]
In: smp
28 Jun 2005Geek News Central is reporting that their server is getting crushed with all the new iTunes 4.9 users. You had to know this would happen. People have heard the buzz and want to hear what it’s all about.
From a Web performance perspective, podcasts are hellish: large, uncompressible binary files. At least they are able to [...]
Port80 tells a great story about a product that they had in the pipe that would prevent bandwidth leeching (defined in the post). [here]
Their observation that technology that could do this would be of particular interest to purveyors of adult-oriented sites does not surprise me. However, their rationale for stopping development was not based on [...]
In: smp
6 May 2005James Governor hits for six with this gem.
By bringing their correlation capabilities with Web metrics (Urchin) and site visits (Web Accelerator and Toolbar), Google will be able to direct even better, more focused ad placement, based on visitor location, time of day, Originating ISP, “actual” bandwidth, and any number of other metrics that they will [...]
In: RANTING
3 May 2005I have been getting a great deal of interest in the IP-to-Country data that I have been working on over the last few years. However, I have had to take this data down from my site.
The bandwidth costs are starting to become noticeable
My old hardware is starting to creak under the weight
There are commercial sources [...]
In: smp
30 Apr 2005This paper is an extension of the work done for another article that highlighted the performance benefits of retrieving uncompressed and compressed objects directly from the origin server. I wanted to add a proxy server into the stream and determine if proxy servers helped improve the performance of object downloads, and by how much.
Using the [...]
In: smp
30 Apr 2005Web page compression is not a new technology, but it has just recently gained higher recognition in the minds of IT administrators and managers because of the rapid ROI it generates. Compression extensions exist for most of the major Web server platforms, but in this article I will focus on the Apache and mod_gzip solution.
The [...]
In: smp
28 Apr 2005Om Malik points out a potential threat to blogs: OSX 10.4 “Tiger”. The new Safari that ships with this OS comes with the RSS reader turned on by default!
That upgrade while great for the consumers, could come as a big shocker for those blogs whose feeds are included as part of SafariÂ’s default starter package. [...]