Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
How much improvement can you see with compression? The difference in measured download times on a very lightly loaded server indicates that the time to download the Base Page (the initial HTML file) improved by between 1.3 and 1.6 seconds across a very slow connection when compression was used.
Base Page Performance
There is a slightly slower [...]
In todays highly competitive e-commerce marketplace, the performance of a web-site plays a key role in attracting new and retaining current clients. New technologies are being developed to help speed up the delivery of content to customers while still allowing companies to get their message across using rich, graphical content. However, in the rush to [...]
A few years ago, I wrote an article ablout how to best set up Web server cache-control messages to take advantage of this free form of content distribution. Until now, it has only existed as a PDF file.
Last night, I sent a copy to Kevin Burton of TailRank in response to some of his recent [...]
In: Life| Technology| Web Performance
6 Mar 2006I just had a look at the list of domains that I own and realize thatI want/need to clean house. There are 3 domains that I want to keep,and 9 that I am looking to get rid of.
Domains that I want to unload include:
mod-deflate.net
mod-deflate.org
performancecore.org
performancecorps.org
performancefreaks.org
performanceguru.org
performanceindex.org
searchindex.org
webcaching.org
webcompression.org
webperformance.org
Currently asking $2,000 each for webperformance.org, webcaching.org, searchindex.org, performanceindex.org, and webcompression.org, and [...]
In: RANTING| Web Performance
21 Oct 2005At my job, I get involved in trying to solve a lot of hairball problems that seem obscure and bizarre. It’s the nature of what I do.
Over the last 3 weeks, some issues that we have been investigating as independent performance-related trends merged into a single meta-issue. I can’t go into the details right now, [...]
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
14 Apr 2005Now, I never even heard about this Comcast outage until this morning. [here]
One reason that I likely didn’t notice it is that I run my own caching name servers on my home network. I do this because I have never trusted any provider’s overworked name servers (goes back to the history of the industry I [...]
In: RANTING
16 Mar 2005The folks at Port80 Software have released Version 3.0 of httpZip, their compression and caching application for IIS servers.
Looks like thay have put a lot of time and effort into this new release, with great features such as a compression cache to prevent unecessary re-compression of frequently requested files, and better server resource controls.
Congrats!
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