Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
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 [...]
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
19 Feb 2006If anyone wants to know why I am proud of GrabPERF, this graph should give you a clue.
Every hour, an aggregated value is produced for every test url. Counting up the Geometric Mean aggregations on a daily basis, the growth line is pretty amazing.
Doing a rough calculation, the system has grown from testing 40 urls [...]
In: GrabPERF
16 Feb 2006The team at BlogFlux laid on some major performance improvements to their Mapstats service last night.
This is a fantastic improvement! I can’t wait to hear how they achieved it.
Technorati Tags: BlogFlux, MapStats, Web performance, GrabPERF
In: smp
19 Sep 2005The weekly GrabPERF Search Index Results are in.
This Week’s Notes
ERTW.com Agent location taken offline
Addition of Google Blogsearch to the Index
Numerous performance improvements to the GrabPERF interface
Week of September 12-18, 2005
TEST [...]
In: smp
16 Sep 2005I upgraded b2evolution yesterday to 0.9.1, which the developers claim had substantial performance improvements.
I believe them.
Kudos to the b2evolution team!
In: smp
28 Jul 2005You have to wonder about the resiliemcy of the human mind sometime; apparently as quickly as one dives into a deep funk, you get to bounce off the floor….
I’m Baaaaaaacccckkk!
If only to handle the flood from Dave Sifry’s post on Technorati’s performance improvement. [here]
Technorati: Technorati, Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis
IceRocket: Technorati, [...]
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
7 Dec 2004I wanted to point you to an evangelist of the good kind that Scoble found — "Obi-Wan", the Prowler Knight. They come in all shapes and sizes.
One of the directors in our company keeps saying how impressed he was by a certain product evangelist he saw at a conference a few years ago. He sings [...]
Web Performance: Your Teenage Web site
In: Commentary| The Web| Web Performance| WebPerformance.Org| Work
10 Sep 2008It’s critical to your business. It affects revenue. It’s how people who can’t come to you perceive you.
It’s your Web site.
Its complex. Abstract. Lots of conflicting ideas and forces are involved. Everyone says they now the best thing for it. Finger-pointing. Door slamming. Screaming.
Am I describing your Web site and the team that supports it? [...]