Posts Tagged ‘improvement

It’s critical to your business. It affects revenue. It’s how people who can’t come to you perceive you.
It’s your Web site.
Its complex. Abstract. Lots of conflicting ideas and forces are involved. Everyone says they now the best thing for it. Finger-pointing. Door slamming. Screaming.
Am I describing your Web site and the team that supports it? [...]

If you use GrabPERF on a regular basis, the somewhat flaky navigation method has become second nature to you. In fact, to circumvent some of the idiosyncrasies, you have probably bookmarked your favourite pages.
Yesterday, I broke your links.
When I redesigned GrabPERF in February 2006, I had just discover the require function in PHP, and decided [...]

I have been using Skype as a landline pretty exclusively for the last 6 months, but the quality of the service has been degrading rapidly. Today, I called Samantha from the office and she said it sounded like I was calling from inside a tin can.
So, on a recommendation from a co-worker, I am giving [...]

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 [...]

One of the performance hits that the GrabPERF system has is the dynamic generation of the main page. The nature of the SQL calls and the underlying PHP makes it scale exponentially past a certain number of measurements.
Last night, Kevin Burton made a grand suggestion: generate a static page on a regular schedule.
Duh!
Today, I wrote [...]

Coming up for air

In: Canada| Life

22 Jun 2006

I am still swamped at work, but I have a glimmer of space available to me, so I thought that I would drop by and let everyone know what’s happening.
We are well on our way to being ready for the trip to BC and Alberta that starts Monday (June 26). We have a dining room [...]

Usually I classify this sort of mail as complete nonsense, and delet it. But this one was such a classic, I had to post it.
The letter is from the new CEO of the joint Borland/Segue. He is announcing that he thinks that Segue and Borland customers will be able to find cool ways to use [...]

Matt threw a bunch of hardware at Ping-O-Matic this morning.

I think this is an improvement.
UPDATE: Anecdotally, I know that Ping-O-Matic is faster, because Performancing is done so much faster now.

Technorati Tags: Ping-O-Matic, Pingomatic, GrabPERF, Web Performance

If 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 [...]

The team at BlogFlux laid on some major performance improvements to their Mapstats service last night.

This is a fantastic improvement! I can’t wait to hear how they achieved it.

Technorati Tags: BlogFlux, MapStats, Web performance, GrabPERF


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Stephen Pierzchala is one of a cadre of crazy Canucks living in the United States. A 10-year veteran of the Web performance field, Stephen also writes on topics as diverse as branding and reputation, bipolar, and Web technologies.

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