Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In the Customer Generation and Customer Retention articles of this series, the focus was on Web performance measurements designed to serve an audience outside of your organization. Starting with Business Operations, the focus shifts toward the use of Web performance measurements inside your organization.
Why Business Operations?
When I was initially developing these ideas with my colleague [...]
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1 Sep 2006In 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 [...]
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30 Aug 2005Just noticed that Bob Wyman of PubSub dropped in to look at the GrabPERF data we are collecting. [here]
Although Bob’s pride is evident, I do caution that being the top of a performance index is simply one measure of success. There is the whole discussion of relevancy of results, but that is beyond the scope [...]
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6 Apr 2005Back in November, I mentioned that I was working on the idea of new ways to benchmark the success of online businesses in today’s more mature operational environment. I am still working on the base ideas, but a colleague of mine has helped me coalesce some ideas, and they are now forming the foundation of [...]
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29 Mar 2005Ouch. I thought this one was worthy of some analysis. Google acquire Urchin. [and here]
Why does this make sense? As one of the comments to the link above states, the link between search algorithms makes some sense, as you will be able quickly isolate and identify trends within the reams of visitor data that is [...]
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23 Dec 2004Remember how Comcast Re-IP’ed the entire neighbourhood this week? Well, I can measure the Sears hompage again. For those who don’t know the story, you can read more here.
The ethical question that I face is whether I should or not because I can. In the Web performance business, the companies that I work for have [...]
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30 Nov 2004Web performance benchmarks have been a part of the industry since the beginning. However, it is not 1999 anymore. What do these benchmarks really mean?
Simple, aggregated performance and success rate values based on a limited dataset for a finite time period give a very tiny perspective into the world of Web performance. The operation of [...]