Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
The next generation of browser all tout that they are able to more effectively deliver on the concept of cloud computing and Web applications. That may be the case, but it changes the entire world of Web performance measurement and monitoring.
The Web performance focus for most firms is simple: How quickly can code/text/images/flash can be [...]
In: Browsers| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| WebPerformance.Org| analytics
24 Mar 2009A great follow-up to my post on Browser Stats is this slide deck from Gomez on Online Revenue and Browsers Performance.
Protect Your Online Revenue – Best Practices For Ensuring Your Web Applications Perform Across Browsers
NB: I do work for Gomez.
In: Browsers| GrabPERF| Internet| The Web| Uncategorized| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics
24 Mar 2009Using the visitor trending data collected and shared by StatCounter, I have undertaken a general analysis of browser distribution by global region. These metrics are collected using the embedded tags that StatCounter customers embed on their site to collect visitor metrics for their own use.
US data shows that MSIE 7.0 is in a dominant position, [...]
Last fall it was Chrome. Now it’s Safari 4 Beta. Soon it will be Firefox 3.1 and IE 8.
Each browser has its harsh critics and fervent supporters. But in the end, does the browser really matter?
The answer to this question depends on who you speak to. Developers will say yes, because browsers make their lives [...]
In: Browsers| Technology| The Web| Web Performance| Work
4 Sep 2008The last two days of using Chrome have had me thinking about the purpose of the Web browser in today’s world. I’ve talked about how Chrome and Firefox have changed how we see browsers, treating them as interactive windows into our daily life, rather than the uncontrolled end of an information firehose.
These applications, that on [...]
Port80 Software is reporting that in their survey of Fortune 1000 Web sites, IIS 6.0 has overtaken Apache as the Web server platform of choice. [here]
My two-cents: I respect the Port80 Software team greatly and love their maniacal devotion to ensuring that IIS users actually make use of the HTTP compression and caching that can [...]
Browsers: The Window and The Firehose
In: Commentary| Technology
3 Sep 2008Three years ago, in a post on this blog, I stated that I thought that the browser was becoming less important as more data moved into streams of data through RSS and aggregated feeds, as well as a raft of other consumer-oriented Web services.
This position was based on the assumption that the endpoint, in the [...]