Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: GrabPERF
7 Aug 2007As a part of the reworking of the GrabPERF code, I removed the Google ads from all pages. They were an annoyance, and displayed items were incredibly irrelevant for the site.
If you use GrabPERF on a regular basis, the somewhat flaky navigation method has become second nature to you. In fact, to circumvent some of the idiosyncrasies, you have probably bookmarked your favourite pages.
Yesterday, I broke your links.
When I redesigned GrabPERF in February 2006, I had just discover the require function in PHP, and decided [...]
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 went to the Natural History Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum today, which isn’t too shabby considering that I am jet-lagged and trying to get my body on the local schedule after taking the red-eye in.
The Da Vinci exhibit had pages from his notebooks and sketchbooks. Seeing the mind of a genius, the [...]
This 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 [...]
I have been running the GrabPERF Compression and Performance study for less than a week, but I thought that I should share some of the initial results with everyone.
As you can see above, the byte transmission savings gained by some sites is pretty astounding. Google News sends a pages with a median weight of near [...]
In: Uncategorized
27 Aug 2006I sat down and finally read my copy of Never Eat Alone, by Keith Ferrazzi. Well, I agonizingly got my way through 80% of the book before I threw it across the room in disgust.
What a load of crap.
There might be a message in the book somewhere. But the book is mostly about Mr. Ferrazzi’s [...]
One of the performance hits that the GrabPERF system has is the dynamic generation of the main page. The nature of the SQL calls and the underlying PHP makes it scale exponentially past a certain number of measurements.
Last night, Kevin Burton made a grand suggestion: generate a static page on a regular schedule.
Duh!
Today, I wrote [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
9 Aug 2006I now have a true live example of how text matching can provide information on issues where a successful page is returned.
In this example, the TEST AGENT returned a Text Match Failed error, while 3 of the agents running the current production code said the page was a success.
How do I know that the TEST [...]
AJAX is an amazing bit of technology, and a boon to Web performance.
The question is, how do you accurately measure it?
Now, from the perspective of synthetic transaction measurement, AJAX destroys the foundational concept of the “Page”, as it is built on the concept of the “sequence”. “Pages” assume a whole new HTML document is loaded [...]