Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: smp
30 Apr 2005This paper is an extension of the work done for another article that highlighted the performance benefits of retrieving uncompressed and compressed objects directly from the origin server. I wanted to add a proxy server into the stream and determine if proxy servers helped improve the performance of object downloads, and by how much.
Using the [...]
In: smp
6 Apr 2005No, this is not a shameless attempt to drive me to the top of the rankings. It is a legitimate comment on a quiet little secret of the new Google Video Search.
Google co-founder Larry Page has announced that the company wants the public to send in its homemade videos – and he doesn’tÂ’t mind how [...]
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22 Jan 2005My work laptop is now a fine machine, running Apache, PHP, Zend Optimizer and MySQL. A true development environment for a geek like me!
And just in time: storm’s a-comin’!
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4 Jan 2005Thanks to a suggestion from the Blog Herald, I put the Zend Optimizer on my Web server to see if I can squeeze anymore performance out of that already creaky box.
Let me know if you see/feel anything weird or freaky with the WebPerformance system.