I 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 need from all the folks who use the system right now are the things that make you nuts. What don’t you like about:

• Graphing
• Data Presentation
• Workflow
• Available Statistics

This is your time to speak up because you use GrabPERF far more than I do. And without feedback, I just write in the stuff that is interesting to me.

Looking forward to the give-and-take.

Technorati Tags: GrabPERF, GrabPERF 2.50, feature requests, enhancements

Tags: data, EAD, GrabPERF, HTTP, IE, IM, improvement, it, Om, pr, statistics, Technorati

A 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 me that they started using HTTP Compression.

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IceRocket: Technorati, Tags

Tags: app, ARIN, blog, compress, compression, GrabPERF, HTTP, IM, improvement, it, media, Om, performance, PHP, pr, search, Technorati, update

The 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 major change that caused performance to improve dramatically.

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This improvement was due to some back-end changes in the search itself. How do I know this? All the improvement came in first-byte (server response time).

HOUR                 AVG_SERVER_RESPONSE
-------------------  -------------------
10/20/2005 00:00:00            1.2159322
10/20/2005 01:00:00            1.2658667
10/20/2005 02:00:00            1.3596000
10/20/2005 03:00:00            1.1870328
10/20/2005 04:00:00            1.1672373
10/20/2005 05:00:00            1.2970500
10/20/2005 06:00:00            1.2220333
10/20/2005 07:00:00            1.3705500
10/20/2005 08:00:00            1.4188667
10/20/2005 09:00:00            1.4439000
10/20/2005 10:00:00            1.5772000
10/20/2005 11:00:00            1.4943559
10/20/2005 12:00:00            1.4794426
10/20/2005 13:00:00            1.4017333
10/20/2005 14:00:00            1.6012500
10/20/2005 15:00:00            1.4380333
10/20/2005 16:00:00            1.1326441
10/20/2005 17:00:00            0.5613000
10/20/2005 18:00:00            0.5656833
10/20/2005 19:00:00            0.5766833
10/20/2005 20:00:00            0.5219831
10/20/2005 21:00:00            0.4722131
10/20/2005 22:00:00            0.5022333
10/20/2005 23:00:00            0.4569138

Would love to hear from the Yahoo team, and learn exactly what they did to bring about such a massive improvement.

Tags: blog, GrabPERF, HTTP, IM, improvement, it, leave, media, Om, performance, pr, search, server, Yahoo!

Ok, 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 page went from 30,000+ bytes to 15,000+ bytes. This is always a clue that either:

1. The server has started using a compression technology
2. The page being returned is not the one you expect

I have switched the measurements back to Relevance Searches; these are less important to blog searches (more like old-school search engines). This will keep Feedster on an even par with everyone else, it will have to stay this way until Feedster fixes their Date Search.

The new search is:

http://www.feedster.com/search.php?q=[SEARCH TERM]&sort=relevance

I would love to hear from the Feedster team when they have fixed this issue.

UPDATE: Scott Johnson and Jeff Kletsky from Feedster dropped by. The relevance search is back up and running, and the measurement has been updated accordingly.

Tags: blog, compress, compression, feeds, GrabPERF, HTTP, IE, IM, improvement, it, measurement, media, Om, One, PHP, pr, run, search, search engines, server, update

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’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 been working on correcting this and you should see the improvement currently.

At present, the stats page continues to be disabled. We expect that stats will be restored today.

Posted by Six Apart Ops at 11:15 AM

10.11.2005
TypePad Blogs

UPDATE (1:10 PM). Service has been restored to published weblogs shortly after the last update and is continuing solid.

—————

UPDATE (12:31 PM). We are currently restoring service to published weblogs. While we restore service, you may experience degraded performance. We appreciate and thank you for your patience.

—————

UPDATE (12:02 PM). One of the main servers has gone off line. We are in the process of restarting it.

We apologize for the inconvenience, and we will post an update here as soon as possible.

Posted by Six Apart Ops at 11:16 AM

Technorati: typepad, grabperf

IceRocket: typepad, grabperf

Tags: ads, app, application, blog, content, current, EAD, GrabPERF, HTTP, IE, IM, improvement, it, media, Om, One, outage, performance, pr, server, Technorati, update, web

I 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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Tags: GrabPERF, GrabPERF.org, HTTP, IM, improvement, it, measurement, media, Om, performance, pr, search, update

The weekly GrabPERF Search Index Results are in.

This Week’s Notes

1. ERTW.com Agent location taken offline
2. Addition of Google Blogsearch to the Index
3. Numerous performance improvements to the GrabPERF interface

Week of September 12-18, 2005

TEST                           RESULT  SUCCESS  ATTEMPTS
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PubSub - Search             0.2688096    99.82      6532
Google - Search             0.4013164    99.97      6532
Google Blogsearch - Search  0.5818507    98.60      4214
MSN - Search                0.6981630    99.83      6532
Yahoo - Search              0.7159974    99.95      6527
eBay - Search               0.8345692   100.00      6528
BlogLines - Search          1.0204595    99.95      6531
BestBuy.com - Search        1.1687228    99.97      6530
Feedster - Search           1.3112797    99.82      6531
Technorati - Search         1.3240335    99.95      6528
Amazon - Search             1.5195445    99.72      2481
Newsgator - Search          1.5823492    99.72      6529
Blogdigger - Search         1.7142475    99.97      6506
BENCHMARK RESULTS           2.0313721    99.50     76849
IceRocket - Search          4.2792600    98.79      6515
Blogpulse - Search          6.5226776    99.29      6522

These results are based on data gathered from two remote measurement locations in North America. Each location takes a measurement approximately once every five minutes.

The measurements are for the base HTML document only. No images or referenced files are included.

Technorati: GrabPERF, Web Performance, Web Performance Measurement, Web Performance Monitoring, search index, SEO

IceRocket: GrabPERF, Web Performance, Web Performance Measurement, Web Performance Monitoring, search index, SEO

Tags: app, blog, data, digg, feeds, Google, GrabPERF, GrabPERF.org, HTML, HTTP, IM, improvement, it, measurement, North America, Om, performance, performance improvement, performance measurement, pr, search, seo, Technorati, web, Web Performance, Web performance measurement, Web+performance

I upgraded b2evolution yesterday to 0.9.1, which the developers claim had substantial performance improvements.

I believe them.

Kudos to the b2evolution team!

Tags: evolution, HTTP, IE, IM, improvement, media, performance, performance improvement, pr

Dave 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

IceRocket: Technorati, Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis

Tags: analysis, blog, client, GrabPERF, HTML, HTTP, IE, IM, improvement, it, LAN, Om, performance, pr, search, seo, Technorati, the Origin, traffic, web, web 2.0, Web Performance, Web+performance

You 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

IceRocket: Technorati, Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis

Tags: analysis, app, blog, HTML, HTTP, IE, IM, improvement, it, LAN, Om, One, performance, performance improvement, pr, seo, Technorati, traffic, web, web 2.0, Web Performance, Web+performance