Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Browsers| Internet| Web Performance| Web analytics| WebPerformance.Org
17 Mar 2009For a number of years, I have owned three very popular domain names: WebPerformance.org, WebCaching.org, and WebCompression.org. Last night, after many days of consideration, I stopped pointing them at their own distinct Web space and pointed them at this blog.
This is not a bad or evil thing, considering that for at least 18 months, the [...]
In todays highly competitive e-commerce marketplace, the performance of a web-site plays a key role in attracting new and retaining current clients. New technologies are being developed to help speed up the delivery of content to customers while still allowing companies to get their message across using rich, graphical content. However, in the rush to [...]
In: RANTING| Technology| Web Performance
9 Nov 2005Ok, this is a weird set of data, gathered by our friends over at the Internet Traffic Report
Any of you black-shirted, BGP-lovin’, AS-hoarding packet geeks out there want to comment on what happened on or about Oct 27-29, 2005? I am sure the rest of us would LOVE to know.
Technorati: bgp, Internet, Routing, internet performance
IceRocket: [...]
In: smp
26 Apr 2005The lazycoder brings joy to my heart with this. But in some respects, his comments are too narrow.
I have been working directly with right on the tip of the wave tech for over a decade. I have been at least in the front part of the wave with a number of other cool ideas.
In the [...]
In: smp
22 Dec 2004The reason why the Long Tail concept seemed so familiar to me is that I work with the statistical cousin to the marketing term, the Heavy Tail.
The term Heavy Tail is used to describe a dataset that is not "normally" (in the statistical sense; think Bell Curve) distributed. Internet performance data is notoriously heavy-tailed, with [...]