Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: GrabPERF
15 Feb 2006I am starting to lay out the new items that I will be rolling into GrabPERF 2.50, set for release in April. Already some friends of GrabPERF have weighed in with their desires, and some of them are easy to do, others require a whole new learning curve for me to get ramped into.
What I [...]
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.
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Ummm…yeah. Just a little.
Again…wow.
UPDATE: And Technorati just told [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
22 Oct 2005The Yahoo! BlogSearch started off showing less than remarkable results in terms of performance (I leave the qalitative judgement to other critics). Over the last 11 days, the team at Yahoo! have realized that there may be an issue, and they have been working on it.
On Thursday afternoon (Oct 20, 2005), they obviously implemented a [...]
In: GrabPERF
19 Oct 2005Ok, for the average viewer a 0.25 second improvement doesn’t look like much.
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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 2005CLICK IMAGE
’nuff said.
UPDATE: From Technorati
10.11.2005
TypePad Service
The TypePad application is currently experiencing performance degradation. You may be experiencing application errors due to the issue with published blog content noted below. We are aware of the issue and are working hard to correct it as soon as possible; we apologize for the inconvenience.
UPDATE (1:10 pm) We have [...]
In: GrabPERF
10 Oct 2005I love Chris Pirillo’s new search tool, Gada.Be.
I fired up the standard measurement on GrabPERF: “new york”
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I just de-activated the measurement, it was hanging the whole measurement system. I’ll fire it up again tomorrow and see if there is some improvement.
UPDATE: Gada.be has become usable, but performance does vary substantially.
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In: smp
19 Sep 2005The weekly GrabPERF Search Index Results are in.
This Week’s Notes
ERTW.com Agent location taken offline
Addition of Google Blogsearch to the Index
Numerous performance improvements to the GrabPERF interface
Week of September 12-18, 2005
TEST [...]
In: smp
16 Sep 2005I upgraded b2evolution yesterday to 0.9.1, which the developers claim had substantial performance improvements.
I believe them.
Kudos to the b2evolution team!
In: smp
2 Sep 2005Dave Sifry released a state of the search post yesterday. Between re-building my laptop and getting a client project out, I missed the original post.[here]
Thanks Dave! And continued success.
Technorati: Technorati, Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis
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In: smp
28 Jul 2005You have to wonder about the resiliemcy of the human mind sometime; apparently as quickly as one dives into a deep funk, you get to bounce off the floor….
I’m Baaaaaaacccckkk!
If only to handle the flood from Dave Sifry’s post on Technorati’s performance improvement. [here]
Technorati: Technorati, Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis
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