Posts Tagged ‘Business/Finance’

Effective Web Performance: The Culture of Performance

In: Effective Web Performance| Internet| Technology| Web Performance| Web analytics| WebPerformance.Org| analytics

17 Aug 2009

A quote from Avinash Kaushik (Occam’s Razor and @avinashkaushik) to start this post.
I have a 10/90 rule . If your budget is $100 then spend $10 on tools and professional services to implement them, and spend $90 on hiring people to analyze data you collect on your website.
The web is quite complex, you are going [...]

Effective Web Performance: Positively Managing Performance Issues

In: Effective Web Performance| Internet| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| Wireless| analytics| business

17 Aug 2009

The moment a Web site goes live, the publishers lose control of the performance.
When I say lose control of the performance, I mean that despite everything that has been done to ensure scalability and capacity, the Web is inherently an infrastructure that is out of anyone’s direct ability to manage.
This is something that needs to [...]

The Loss of Blogging Voice, or Why I removed the Ads from my Blog

In: Blogging| Commentary| The Web| Web analytics| advertising| analytics| branding| reputation| social media

11 Aug 2009

I have had advertising on my blog for as long as I can remember. Except for the period of time when I hosted the site at Wordpress.com, I have always had AdSense, Chitika, or some other ad services content being contextually presented to my visitors.
Frankly, I found having ads up on my site extremely hypocritical, [...]

Do you need a smartphone?

In: Internet| Mobile| Technology

7 Aug 2009

In the rush to the mobile computing era, what is often lost by advocates of this technology are the actual needs of the modern mobile consumer. Do most users need to have a handheld computer with them at all times? Is that what they desire? What does the market say?
In March 2009, 23% of mobile [...]

Web Performance: How long can you ignore the money?

In: Technology| The Web| Web Performance| WebPerformance.Org| business

3 Aug 2009

Web performance is everywhere. People intuitively understand that when a site is slow, something’s wrong. Web performance breeds anecdotal tales of lost carts, broken catalogs, and searches gone wrong. Web performance can get you name in lights, but not in the way you or your company would like.
It’s a mistake to consider Web performance a [...]

Web Performance: The Strength of Corporate Silos

In: The Web| Web Performance| WebPerformance.Org

16 Oct 2008

When I meet with clients, I am always astounded by the strength of the silos that exist inside companies. Business, Marketing, IT, Server ops, Development, Network ops, Finance. In the same house, sniping and plotting to ensure that their team has the most power.
Or so it seems to the outsider.
Organizations are all fighting over the [...]

Web Performance: Blogs, Third Party Apps, and Your Personal Brand

In: Blogging| The Web| Web Performance| WebPerformance.Org

17 Sep 2008

The idea that blogs generate a personal brand is as old as the “blogosphere”. It’s one of those topics that rages through the blog world every few months. Inexorably the discussion winds its way to the idea that a blog is linked exclusively to the creators of its content. This makes a blog, no matter [...]


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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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