Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Browsers| Technology| The Web
3 Sep 2008Recently there was an outage at a hit-tracking vendor I was using to track the hits on my externally hosted blog, leaving me with a gap in my visitor data several hours long. While this was an inconvenience for me, I realized that this could be mission critical failure to an online business reliant on [...]
In: Life
30 Dec 2006I have set up a test to check the performance of the CoralCDN network against that of the origin server. You can view the comparative results here.
The tests used the base HTML document of this blog as the target.
The results so far indicate that there is a slight performance penalty when using CoralCDN in an ad [...]
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 [...]
Apparent using HTTP compression alongside HTTP/1.1 will cause certain versions of MSIE 6.0 to implode. [here]
I personally think this was because the NSA power shortage was making it too hard for the spooks to snoop on compressed Web traffic. [here]
Via: Port80 Software
PS: No, I won’t turn off compression because Microsoft did something really stupid.
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In: Life
28 Jun 2006Yup, we made it to Victoria. It was a 23-hour marathon that involved:
A shuttle service that made a change at the last second and saw us almost miss our flight. Dragon dude will be dishing out some justice about that soon.
A wildcat strike by air traffic controllers in Chicago that the pilots blamed on “weather”.
A [...]
In: RANTING| Technology| Web Performance
9 Nov 2005Ok, this is a weird set of data, gathered by our friends over at the Internet Traffic Report
Any of you black-shirted, BGP-lovin’, AS-hoarding packet geeks out there want to comment on what happened on or about Oct 27-29, 2005? I am sure the rest of us would LOVE to know.
Technorati: bgp, Internet, Routing, internet performance
IceRocket: [...]
In: Blogging
22 Oct 2005Jeremy Zawodny asked the community for stats on where their search engine referrals were coming from.[here]
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Google is crushing all other engines. However, I have noticed that my traffic has dropped substantially since the new Page Rank indexing began this week. Wonder what’s up there…
In: smp
26 Sep 2005For all you local vloggers, there is a vlogging mini-conference coming up in Worcester, MA.
When: Monday, October 3rd, 6 p.m.
Who: You and your interested friends
What: “Meet the Vloggers” Worcester
Why: To learn more about videoblogging and build community
Directions to WPI: http://www.wpi.edu/About/Visitors/directions.html
Campus map to find the Campus Center:
http://www.wpi.edu/About/Visitors/Images/walkingmap.pdf
(The Campus Center is #6, behind Alumni Gym (#3) and [...]
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.
Blog Statistics Analysis: Page Views by Day of Week, or When to Post
In: Blogging| Commentary
16 Sep 2008Since I started self-hosting this blog again on August 6 2008, I have been trying to find more ways to pull traffic toward the content that I put up. Like all bloggers, I feel that I have important things to say (at least in the area of Web performance), and ideas that should be read [...]