Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: smp
9 Oct 2005GrabPERF is now officially back in the open: All data; All the time.
I hope you like some of the changes I have made in the site navigation pages. I am slowly adding new features when I can, so watch for a trickle of new items appearing.
GrabPERF is still up for sale. I can’t dedicate the [...]
In: smp
1 Sep 2005Looks like today is the day I either swap out my laptop for a new one or re-build this one from scratch (or a disk image). MSIE does not retrieve pages anymore, and I have been using this machine for nearly 9 months and the registry is likely a complete mess.
Mmmmm…love that shiny, new install [...]
In: smp
20 Jul 2005Ok, congrats to Dave Sifry and teh Technorati team. So far today, things look good.
But they are still using broken HTTP to deliver the pages.
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:24:16 GMT
Server: Apache
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11
Set-Cookie: BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!
Set-Cookie: BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Connection: close
Throwing hardware at a problem solves [...]
In: RANTING
3 May 2005I have been getting a great deal of interest in the IP-to-Country data that I have been working on over the last few years. However, I have had to take this data down from my site.
The bandwidth costs are starting to become noticeable
My old hardware is starting to creak under the weight
There are commercial sources [...]
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
30 Apr 2005Web page compression is not a new technology, but it has just recently gained higher recognition in the minds of IT administrators and managers because of the rapid ROI it generates. Compression extensions exist for most of the major Web server platforms, but in this article I will focus on the Apache and mod_gzip solution.
The [...]
In: smp
28 Apr 2005Trendmap for Stephen Pierzchala
I am so boring….
In: smp
24 Mar 2005Stephen O’Grady describes “continuous partial attention” in this post. He notes Scoble’s decision to retire the link blog and try and devote more time to his life.
How much is too much? That is a question we all fight with daily. I currently have a half-finished Zen book, Beyond Bullets, and a long article out of [...]
In: RANTING
22 Mar 2005Travis Smith points out that Google, out of the goodness of it’s heart while trying to raise awareness for World Water Day, accidentally crushed the Web site of the group organizing this event, worldwaterday.org. [here]
Travis poses the excellent question about asking your Web provider how they will handle a huge spike in traffic. Can you [...]
In: RANTING
18 Feb 2005Looks like Firefox could become the genesis of the private-label browser, unencumbered by nasty platform/OS/Service Pack limitations. [here -- courtesy of the XSLT:General blog]
I believe strenously that Microsoft has committed a serious error in limiting the upcoming MSIE 7 update to Windows XP SP2 machines. It will not drive the large corporate IT departments who [...]