Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
Apparent using HTTP compression alongside HTTP/1.1 will cause certain versions of MSIE 6.0 to implode. [here]
I personally think this was because the NSA power shortage was making it too hard for the spooks to snoop on compressed Web traffic. [here]
Via: Port80 Software
PS: No, I won’t turn off compression because Microsoft did something really stupid.
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In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
21 Jul 2006After a few month hiatus, I am starting to code for GrabPERF again. I need to exercise my brain; as I am a hobbyist code mangler, I have to take on a project every now and then to keep my not-so-l33t skillz honed.
The change to the agent is one of efficiency. The current production agent [...]
In: Blogging| GrabPERF| Web Performance
13 Jun 2006Dear PodTech:
Use HTTP Compression. It’s built into Apache/2.0.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:30:24 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.53 (Fedora)
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11
X-Pingback: http://www.podtech.net/xmlrpc.php
Status: 200 OK
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Probably save you some bandwidth and improve your performance, which is in the tank right now.
Podtech Live Web Performance
Best of luck.
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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: Blogging| GrabPERF| Web Performance
3 Nov 2005A while back, I posted a note that the Tag search app at Technorati was behaving in a manner that did not match the performance of the rest of their products. [here]
The Technorati team followed up with me today and asked if I had seen any improvement.
CLICK IMAGE
Ummm…yeah. Just a little.
Again…wow.
UPDATE: And Technorati just told [...]
In: GrabPERF
19 Oct 2005Ok, for the average viewer a 0.25 second improvement doesn’t look like much.
CLICK IMAGE
However, this is extrememly deceptive. The searches were using the the bare minimum terms necessary.
http://www.feedster.com/search.php?q=[SEARCH TERM]
This stopped working correctly last night. Effectively, it looks like Feedster’s Date Search is broken. How did I figure this out? Well, the size of the results [...]
In: smp
11 Oct 2005I guess bandwidth doesn’t matter to Yahoo. They don’t use gzip/HTTP compression any more.
Ok, not completely true. It’s there on the Portal Page. But nowhere else.
<sigh>
I give up.
In: smp
6 Oct 2005Dear Level3:
Your homepage is full of useless empty spaces, including a very large screen full of empty space after the server response. Have you not heard of HTTP Compression?
At least I know you are using what used to be called ColdFusion to manage your content; ColdFusion is notorious for leaving large gaping holes in a [...]
In: smp
30 Sep 2005A colleague in Germany forwarded me this interesting Microsoft knowledgebase article.
Internet Explorer May Lose the First 2,048 Bytes of Data That Are Sent Back from a Web Server That Uses HTTP Compression
This appears to only happen if another program registers (Real8 Download is the example given in the KB article) to use some of the [...]
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 [...]