Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Uncategorized
18 Jul 2006It’s just about noon and the temperature is racing towards 95F.
The humidity is high enough that the dog went for a swim, not a walk this morning.
The atmosphere is currently: 80% Nitrogen, 19% Pollution, and 1% Oxygen.
I am trying to imagine why so many people want to live here.
Technorati Tags: massachusetts, heat, humidity, east coast, [...]
I am writing this from Toronto. I am in shock that I am here, as the events over the last 24 hours seem like a bad dream. It appears that the US media has not picked it up on this crisis. In fact, I am
having difficulty getting to US news sites and blog servers from [...]
In: GrabPERF
31 Mar 2006I want to welcome a new measurement agent to the GrabPERF family: New York PubSub #1. This location came online yesterday, and has been delivering data consistently since about 21:00 EST (02:00 GMT) last night.
The world is a very small place. Turns out that my primary technical contact on the PubSub is someone who used [...]
At Gate 80, Terminal 3, SFO. Likely I will be in and around this area for a while, as my flight leaves at 23:20 PST (It’s currently 17:20 PST).
Drop by if you’re in the area…Heh!
Technorati Tags: SFO
In: Life
14 Mar 2006Finally broke down and bought Samantha a new computer this morning.
Lowest common deniminator machine from Dell. But her current machine is showing its age and it’s time to make it a computer for the boys. I even have a new hard drive for it — the drive that used to hold the GrabPERF database.
Now maybe [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
7 Mar 2006I have now launched the GrabPERF Site Statistics Index. The current members are:
StatCounter
SiteMeter
ShinyStats
OneStat
If you know of or represent a firm that I have missed, please drop me an email or a comment.
Technorati Tags: GrabPERF, Web performance, StatCounter, SiteMeter, OneStat, ShinyStats, Site Statistics, Web Analytics, performance index
Patrick McGoohan created the amazing character of “Number Six” a year before I was born. But sitting here in my beautiful home in Massachusetts, I understand the feelings that the character must have experienced.
The premise, for those who don’t know the show, is that Number Six is a top agent for an unnamed spy agency [...]
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: GrabPERF
19 Feb 2006If anyone wants to know why I am proud of GrabPERF, this graph should give you a clue.
Every hour, an aggregated value is produced for every test url. Counting up the Geometric Mean aggregations on a daily basis, the growth line is pretty amazing.
Doing a rough calculation, the system has grown from testing 40 urls [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
10 Nov 2005Last night I made some code modifications to the Line Graph (“Basic Chart”) function in GrabPERF. Previously, the performance graph had been built using data gathered from the rollup table, hourly_site, except for the current hour, which was built from the raw data table, data.
Now, both the Availability and Performance graphs are built from the [...]