Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
3 Jun 2007I have set up measurements to monitor the main pages of some of the world’s largest mobile phone providers.
US Providers
Canadian Providers
European Providers
AsiaPac / South Asia Providers
Just something to do on a rainy Sunday.
Tags: GrabPERF, Web performance, GSM, CDMA, Web site, mobile, wireless, US, Asia, Europe
I have a shiny new Canadian passport that I want to fill with stamps.
Anyone in London need a Web performance analysis from an expert in the field? A detailed examination of your site and a comparison with other national, regional and internationl competitors, complete with a rockin’ statistical breakdown of key metrics?
Daddy needs some airline [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
14 Mar 2006This afternoon, StatCounter showed a marked increase in performance.
Normally I wouldn’t highlight an issue that only lasted an hour, but this appears to have been a very unusual issue that saw the page size decrease to nearly nothing, and performance shoot up to around 45 seconds. This combination usually indicates a back-end application timeout which [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
8 Mar 2006The Site Statistics | Web Analytics Index measurements have been running now for about 2.5 days, and I wanted to make some general comments on what I am seeing.
The methodolgy for testing is straightforward. I chose sites | services that allowed you to create a free (if limited) account to track your Web visitors, and [...]
In: smp
6 May 2005James Governor hits for six with this gem.
By bringing their correlation capabilities with Web metrics (Urchin) and site visits (Web Accelerator and Toolbar), Google will be able to direct even better, more focused ad placement, based on visitor location, time of day, Originating ISP, “actual” bandwidth, and any number of other metrics that they will [...]
In: smp
30 Jan 2005I submitted a presentation proposal for OSCON 2005 just now. The abstract is below.
The Open Source community has driven the online world for the last decade. PHP, PERL, Apache, Java, and MySQL are all major components of large online enterprises.
However, putting an application online and ensuring that it satisfies the performance, availability and reliability demands [...]
In: smp
13 Jan 2005In the world of Web performance, the agreed upon state of Nirvana is the development of an automated system that will isolate, identify, diagnose and resolve (or suggest a resolution) to an issue. However, the question for me is whether these systems are really useful.
Why do I say that? Because they solve the tactical issues. [...]
In: smp
11 Jan 2005A few posts ago, I made some statements which I may come to regret. However, as I wrote to the one person who commented on my statement, what I said was more of a back-handed challenge to Canadian employers to show me that they are truly innovative and world-busting.
I issue a challenge to Canadian Internet [...]
Web Performance, Part IX: Curse of the Single Metric
In: Commentary| The Web| Web Performance| Web performance concepts| WebPerformance.Org| Work
5 Sep 2008While this post is aimed at Web performance, the curse of the single metric affects our everyday lives in ways that we have become oblivious to.
When you listen to a business report, the stock market indices are an aggregated metric used to represent the performance of a set group of stocks.
When you read about economic indicators, [...]