Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
Give almost any human being a hammer, and they will know what to do with it. Modern city dwellers, ancient jungle tribes, and most primates would all look at a hammer and understand instinctively what it does. They would know it is a tool to hit other things with. They may not grasp some of [...]
In: GrabPERF
11 Jan 2008I know that I have been bad at blogging news about GrabPERF, but today there is some. In the last two weeks, we have added two measurement locations: Washington DC AOL and Argentina LaNacion.
Thanks to Carson Evans of AOL, and Jose Falvo and Leonardo Lancellotta of LaNacion for helping out with the installation process.
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In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
23 Nov 2007Today’s biggest victim of Black Friday appears to be Sears
Sears measurement data for the last 8 hours can be found here.
UPDATE: It gets worse for Sears.
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In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
5 Nov 2007mon.itor.us, a service which also provides free Web performance measurement services, appears to be having a wee problem.
The most recent GrabPERF data on this site is available here. The issue may be corrected by the time you look at the data.
I don’t wish suffering like this on anyone. GrabPERF had it’s own 3-4 day outage [...]
In: Life
3 Nov 2007Part of the problem with making a lot of East to West trips across the US is that the flights back are a nightmare for timing. You either lose most of a day or have to take a red-eye.
Well, taking the red-eye has only one advantage: you get to camp in the airline lounge and [...]
In: GrabPERF
28 Aug 2007Had an on-site meeting with Dorion Carroll and the Technorati team. We discussed some ways to extend and expand the GrabPERF infrastructure, and improve the measurement gathering.
Look for changes in the next 6 months that could radically improve the system you know and love!
In: GrabPERF
12 Aug 2007It has been at least a year since I last updated everyone on the state of GrabPERF. That’s because for most of the last year, the system has been rolling along without a hitch or a major systemic change. The last major change to the agent code was alomost exactly a year ago, when I [...]
In: GrabPERF
9 Aug 2007Last night, I got motivated.
Ok, I got manic. Goes with my life.
As a part of that mania, I had a breakthrough on how to present GrabPERF data that I’ve actually been collecting for nearly a year: text match failures.
GrabPERF has the ability to match text on page results using a standard PERL regex. By putting [...]
Methodology Before Measurement
In: Commentary| The Web| Web Performance| Work| business
5 Jan 2009Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
Galileo Galilei
The greatest challenge facing companies today is not finding ways to measure performance. The key issue is one of understanding what should be measured and validating that there is agreement on what the purpose of the measurement is.
Organizations are complex. And with complexity arises [...]