Posts Tagged ‘performance measurement

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
Galileo Galilei
The greatest challenge facing companies today is not finding ways to measure performance. The key issue is one of understanding what should be measured and validating that there is agreement on what the purpose of the measurement is.
Organizations are complex. And with complexity arises [...]

In 2004-2005, as a lark, I created my own Web performance measurement system, using PERL, PHP and MySQL. In August 2005, I managed to figure out how to include remote agents.
I dubbed it…GrabPERF. An odd name, but an amalgamation of “Grab” and “Performance” that made sense to my mind at the time. I also never [...]

In the GigaOm blog today, Allen Leinwand puts up a monstrous wake-up call to all the hip and cool Web 2.0 companies out there: Your apps run across the Internet [here].
I have spent 9 years investigating, diagnosing, and validating the Web performance issues of companies. I can tear the Web performance data of a site [...]

mon.itor.us, a service which also provides free Web performance measurement services, appears to be having a wee problem.

The most recent GrabPERF data on this site is available here. The issue may be corrected by the time you look at the data.
I don’t wish suffering like this on anyone. GrabPERF had it’s own 3-4 day outage [...]

This morning, after months of increasing performance issues, and connectivity issues, I have retired the Boston Verizon measurement location. This location hosted 2 measurement agents.
The machines, hosted in my basement, are connected using Verizon FiOS, which has become increasingly flaky over the last couple of months. As well, the machines are 7 year old Pentium [...]

The weekly GrabPERF Search Index Results are in.
NOTES:

Level3/Cogent Peering Dispute affected all results this week

Week of October 04-10, 2005

TEST RESULT SUCCESS [...]

The weekly GrabPERF Search Index Results are in.
NOTES:

Findory blog search added to index
Google standard search takes top spot with 100% availability

Week of September 26 – October 03, 2005

TEST [...]

The weekly GrabPERF Search Index Results are in.
Week of September 19-25, 2005

TEST RESULT SUCCESS ATTEMPTS
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PubSub [...]

The 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 [...]

The weekly GrabPERF Search Index Results are in.
Week of September 4-11, 2005

TEST RESULT SUCCESS ATTEMPTS
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PubSub – Search 0.5421396 [...]


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Stephen Pierzchala is one of a cadre of crazy Canucks living in the United States. A 10-year veteran of the Web performance field, Stephen also writes on topics as diverse as branding and reputation, bipolar, and Web technologies.

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