Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
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In: Life
3 Nov 2007Part of the problem with making a lot of East to West trips across the US is that the flights back are a nightmare for timing. You either lose most of a day or have to take a red-eye.
Well, taking the red-eye has only one advantage: you get to camp in the airline lounge and [...]
I have finally given up on Trillian releasing a new version anytime before the next ice age, and switched to the the messenger client formerly known as GAIM, now known as Pidgin.
Solid, functional, and showing signs that it is in active development. Unlike Trillian, which is slowly becoming the Duke Nukem Forever of messenger clients.
I’m [...]
The client visit this week (and don’t expect too many details) was to MySpace. It is interesting to get an inside perspective on their performance challenges, as well as their beyond unique infrastructure.
I am bagged, and off to write up a document for another client.
Tags: LA, MySpace, myspace.com
In: Work
20 Mar 2007I did a six-hour presentation / training seminar today, with an encore for a second group tomorrow.
I now realize how frightfully out of practice I am.
I used to do these kinds of events all the time up until 3 years ago. Tonight, my voice is shot, I ache all over, and it feels like [...]
I am writing up a client presentation for next week, and I just realized just how flawed Internet Explorer is. Microsoft claims that the browser is standards compliant. Yet it still doesn’t support HTTP pipelining.
And the frustrating part? They won’t tell us why. I have my suspicions, which include TCP stack issues and a flawed [...]
Going to Chicago for a client meeting tomorrow. Use Skype to reach me, or show up at Topolobampo tonight around 20:00 (8:00PM) CST.
Technorati tags: Chicago, TOPOLOBAMPO
Flying JetBlue into Columbus tomorrow to see a client in the Cincinnati are on Thursday.
Not that anyone ever checks in, but if GrabPERF goes poof, it may be a while before I get to it.
This 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 [...]
I have been running the GrabPERF Compression and Performance study for less than a week, but I thought that I should share some of the initial results with everyone.
As you can see above, the byte transmission savings gained by some sites is pretty astounding. Google News sends a pages with a median weight of near [...]