Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Web Performance
21 Jul 2006Dear Flickr:
I have been wondering for sometime why downloads from your site seemed a little sluggish at times.
At first I blamed your unprecedented growth and success. For a little Vancouver startup (I am a BC boy myself), your entrance onto the stage of social networking applications has been phenomenal. The move from zero to infinity [...]
In: Software| Technology
3 May 2006With some help from the IE7 team, I got IE7 installed. Turns out that there is a conflict between Microsoft (IE7 Beta2) and Google (Desktop Version 2). The Web history indexing performed by Google Desktop somehow conflicts with the way that IE7 Beta 2 handles Web history.
Now that it’s installed I want to try it [...]
In: RANTING| Technology
1 May 2006Microsoft releases a new browser, and, of course, Live Search is the default search tool.
Google is pouting.Who do they think they are? Shut up and sit down.
New Microsoft Browser Raises Google’s Hackles
Microsoft, you have got me to say something that supports something you are doing. Ain’t viral marketing grand?
Now shut up and sit down.
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I got a comment from someone yesterday saying that they couldn’t get to their Statcounter Web site stats. I thought it was an issue on the user end and he reported that he finally got in with another browser.
Well, I just tried with all three of my browsers and I can’t get to the Statcounter [...]
In: GrabPERF| RANTING| Web Performance
18 Feb 2006As a Web performance analyst, this is the sort of graph that melts your mind and makes you want to scream at the gods|goddesses to rain a plague of locusts on the offending System|Network|Web Site Administrators.
Click for a larger version
This is a classic display of the “run in circles, scream and shout” problem identification and [...]
In: smp
26 Sep 2005I have been making some changes to this blog and MSIE continues to gibble the CSS layout.
Well, too bad for them.
Get a real browser.
This blog no longer supports MSIE <= 6.x.
In: smp
22 Sep 2005Opera, my #2 browser choice is now free. Go get it!
Now, Netcraft reports that the site is slowing down as a result. I am also measuring it using GrabPERF
—- START RANT
Now, if they turned on compression and had some explicit cache-control information, they might not be doing to badly.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 [...]
In: smp
3 May 2005This is the latest browser statistic breakdown for the Newest Industry. Data is gathered using the StatCounter.com application and is updated in real time.
I will try and post this to the top of the system on a weekly basis.
Thanks to Tim Bray for the inspiration.
In: smp
2 May 2005I have been seeing a large number of hits with the following User-Agent string in my logs lately:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Firebird hasn’t existed as a browser for a very long time
A build date of October 7, 2003???
From 3 separate IP Addresses
This Apache REWRITE rule took care of this issue.
RewriteCond [...]
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 [...]