In the last 24 hours, thanks to the help of some willing volunteers, GrabPERF has seen the addition of three new measurement locations:

• Dallas, TX (USA)
• Virginia (USA)
• London, UK

All of these location have been graciously provided by the team at e-planning.

Thanks to all of you who volunteer your machines and bandwidth for this project.

As always, we are looking for as more measurement locations. It would be great if we could get some data from the Asia-Pacific region.

Tags: Asia-Pacific, Dallas, e-planning, e-planning.net, External Web Performance, GrabPERF, London, United Kingdom, United States, Virginia, Web Performance, Web performance measurement, West Virginia

Yesterday in the Fast Company Live Fail Whale session [mention on Scoble's blog here], Paul Bucheit of FriendFeed jokingly said that his company’s external alerting mechanism was Louis Gray.

I cringed when I read that, as the last people who should be letting you know you have an issue are your visitors or customers. I know that FriendFeed is new and may not have the ops team that Dorion Carroll and Technorati have developed over the years, but it is still critical.

You have done a lot as a company to build a brand. Don’t let your internal and external performance sully your reputation. There are a number of low-cost and free ways to watch your performance and alert you before things break.

Louis Gray is a great guy. But he is not an objective and reliable way to alert you when something is wrong with your site.

Tags: alerting, Dorion Carroll, External Web Performance, friendfeed, Internal Web Performance, Louis Gray, Paul Bucheit, Technorati, Web Performance