Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Effective Web Performance| Internet| Web Performance| Web analytics| WebPerformance.Org| analytics| business
13 Aug 2009Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are a key component to any Web performance strategy. If you examine the content from any large online business or media provider, it won’t take long to find the objects that these organizations have entrusted to CDNs to ensure faster delivery and a better user experience.
When working with CDNs, it is [...]
In: Effective Web Performance| Internet| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| WebPerformance.Org| business
12 Aug 2009Slap up some measurements. Look at some graphs. Make a few calls. Your site is faster. You’re a hero.
Right.
Effective Web performance is something that requires planning, preparation, execution, and the willingness to try more than once to get things right. I have discussed this problem before, but wanted to expand my thoughts into some steps [...]
I’ve now had my T-Mobile Dash 3G for nearly a month, and I can say that it is a very useful little mobile computing platform for someone who doesn’t need all the power of an iPhone (and who doesn’t what to pay the AT&T tax on mobile computing). After a month of use and thought, [...]
In: GrabPERF| Internet| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics| smp
10 Aug 2009A decade of working in the Web performance industry can leave one with the idea that no matter how good a site is, there is always the opportunity to be better, be faster. However, I am beginning to believe, just from my personal experience on the Internet, that speed has reached its peak with the [...]
In: Internet| Mobile| Technology
7 Aug 2009In the rush to the mobile computing era, what is often lost by advocates of this technology are the actual needs of the modern mobile consumer. Do most users need to have a handheld computer with them at all times? Is that what they desire? What does the market say?
In March 2009, 23% of mobile [...]
In: Technology| The Web| Web Performance| WebPerformance.Org| business
3 Aug 2009Web performance is everywhere. People intuitively understand that when a site is slow, something’s wrong. Web performance breeds anecdotal tales of lost carts, broken catalogs, and searches gone wrong. Web performance can get you name in lights, but not in the way you or your company would like.
It’s a mistake to consider Web performance a [...]
In: The Web| Work| advertising| branding| business| marketing| social media
29 Jul 2009The hip new shiny thing for a new company is to position themselves as a service. Stepping back from the hype machine for a minute, can you really identify a service provider when you see one? Or are the companies that sell themselves as services are actually tools. And what differentiates a tool provider from [...]
In: Browsers| Internet| Software| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics
1 Jul 2009June is one of my favorite months. The sun returns (although in the Boston area there are concerned that it has been replaced by clouds and humidity), the kids get out of school (and get sent to camp), and the outdoor pool opens (and I actually swim in it).
In the US browser market, Internet Explorer [...]
In: Browsers| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics
17 Jun 2009This week marks a momentous time in the history of the Internet. In the United States, StatCounter reports that for the first three days of the work week (Monday – Friday), Internet Explorer 8 usage is equal to Internet Explorer 6 usage.
Tie this to the trend of decreasing Internet Explorer usage noted late last week [...]
Stephen Pierzchala is one of a 10-year veteran of the Web performance field who also writes on topics that interest his non-linear world-view.
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The Loss of Blogging Voice, or Why I removed the Ads from my Blog
In: Blogging| Commentary| The Web| Web analytics| advertising| analytics| branding| reputation| social media
11 Aug 2009I have had advertising on my blog for as long as I can remember. Except for the period of time when I hosted the site at Wordpress.com, I have always had AdSense, Chitika, or some other ad services content being contextually presented to my visitors.
Frankly, I found having ads up on my site extremely hypocritical, [...]