Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: smp
2 Sep 2005Ummm, this one floored me. If Weblogs.com wants to reduce their traffic, turn on mod_deflate in Apache 2.0.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:13:10 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat)
Last-Modified: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:09:54 GMT
ETag: “ac0b3-3559d-840c3080″
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 218525
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
I know it won’t solve everything, but it’s a start.
In: smp
2 Sep 2005Dave Sifry released a state of the search post yesterday. Between re-building my laptop and getting a client project out, I missed the original post.[here]
Thanks Dave! And continued success.
Technorati: Technorati, Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis
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In: smp
31 Aug 2005Why does this exchange bother me?
[ISP NAME DELETED]:
I have been seeing a VERY large number of visits from two hosts in
your IP block since August 26, 2005.
A list of all of the hits since Aug 26 is attached.
If you do not stop this/these hosts, I will be forced to drop all traffic from the [/24 [...]
In: smp
14 Aug 2005Ping-O-Matic. Weblogs.com.
Two of the sites that have seen surges in Web traffic recently.
My unsubstantiated theory is that as summer ends, Web traffic is seeing its usual surge, amplified by the new interest in blogs and Web 2.0 properties.
For the small companies who have effectively had the summer off, it’s time to re-adjust your capacity-planning estimates…upward.
Why? [...]
In: smp
13 Aug 2005Yikes!!!
Can you say capacity planning nightmare?
Technorati: Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis, ping-o-matic, pingomatic
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In: smp
31 Jul 2005Feedster is exhibiting some truly unique behaviour.
Last time I heard that there was an issue with drive redundancy in their SAN. But twice in 2 weeks?
Technorati: Feedster, Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis
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In: GrabPERF
28 Jul 2005Click HERE!
Oh, and be patient. Unlike Google, my creaky server with it’s failing drives takes a while to generate the data.
Technorati: Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis
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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
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In: smp
26 Jul 2005BlogPulse has improved, but it is still a very relative improvement.
Still no word from anyone on the BlogPulse team about the challenges they are facing.
Technorati: BlogPulse, Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis
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In: smp
25 Jul 2005Blogpulse appears to be suffering from a case of the terminal meltdown.
Does anyone at BlogPulse want to share with the community what the challenges they are facing are? No judgements are made here; the objective to share our Web performance tuning knowledge.
Technorati: BlogPulse, Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis
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