Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
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8 Dec 2008In my life as a consultant, I often discuss What Web performance data means and how to interpret it to solve problems. Solving the problems is, however, inherently based on whether the data that is collected is meaningful. In trying to find data that is meaningful, we have found that there are four categories that [...]
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8 Dec 2008In the first three parts of this series, the focus has been on the business side of the business: Customer Generation, Customer Retention, and Business Operations. The final component of any discussion of why companies measure their Web performance falls down to Technical Operations.
Why is Technical Operations last?
This part of the conversation is the last, [...]
Methodology Before Measurement
In: Commentary| The Web| Web Performance| Work| business
5 Jan 2009Measure 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 [...]