Posts Tagged ‘improvement

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.
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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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The 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

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

Kudos to the b2evolution team!

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

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, [...]


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