Posts Tagged ‘Web performance measurement

Today’s Web interfaces are all about the Flash (literally). Smooth charting, cool effects, callouts to references — ways to try and simplify complex data collections.
Problem-solving and diagnosis requires a far deeper dive than the flashiest interface could ever provide, because it comes down to the numbers. The actual measurements that make up the flashy chart. [...]

David Cancel and I have had sort of a passing vague, same space and thought process, living in the same Metropolitan area kind of distant acquaintance for about the same year.
About 2-3 months ago, he wrote a pair of articles discussing the efforts he has undertaken in order to try and offload some of the [...]

Last week, lost in the preternatural shriek that emerged from the Web community around the release of Google Chrome, John Resig posted a thoughtful post on resources usage at the browser. In it, he states that the use of the Process Manager in Chrome will change how people see Web performance. In his words:
The blame [...]

In the realm of Web performance measurement and monitoring, one of the eternal and ever-present questions remains “What is fast?”. The simple fact is that there is no single answer for this question, as it it isn’t a question with one quantitative answer that encompasses all the varied scenarios that are presented to the Web [...]

mon.itor.us, a service which also provides free Web performance measurement services, appears to be having a wee problem.

The most recent GrabPERF data on this site is available here. The issue may be corrected by the time you look at the data.
I don’t wish suffering like this on anyone. GrabPERF had it’s own 3-4 day outage [...]

The weekly GrabPERF Search Index Results are in.
NOTES:

Level3/Cogent Peering Dispute affected all results this week

Week of October 04-10, 2005

TEST RESULT SUCCESS [...]

The weekly GrabPERF Search Index Results are in.
NOTES:

Findory blog search added to index
Google standard search takes top spot with 100% availability

Week of September 26 – October 03, 2005

TEST [...]

The weekly GrabPERF Search Index Results are in.
Week of September 19-25, 2005

TEST RESULT SUCCESS ATTEMPTS
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PubSub [...]

The weekly GrabPERF Search Index Results are in.
This Week’s Notes

ERTW.com Agent location taken offline
Addition of Google Blogsearch to the Index
Numerous performance improvements to the GrabPERF interface

Week of September 12-18, 2005

TEST [...]

The weekly GrabPERF Search Index Results are in.
Week of September 4-11, 2005

TEST RESULT SUCCESS ATTEMPTS
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PubSub – Search 0.5421396 [...]


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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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