Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Life
26 Nov 2007Want to follow all the Holiday Retail Fun? Check out the GrabPERF Black Friday Dashboard! Follow the Web performance of your favorite retailer all the time!
New and updated for 2008!
This morning, Tiger Direct effectively imploded.
Bad day.
UPDATE: Looks like they found the solution to their problem.
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Grabperf, Web performance, Tiger Direct, Cyber Monday
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
23 Nov 2007Today’s biggest victim of Black Friday appears to be Sears
Sears measurement data for the last 8 hours can be found here.
UPDATE: It gets worse for Sears.
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Grabperf, Sears, Black Friday, Web Performance
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
3 Jun 2007I have set up measurements to monitor the main pages of some of the world’s largest mobile phone providers.
US Providers
Canadian Providers
European Providers
AsiaPac / South Asia Providers
Just something to do on a rainy Sunday.
Tags: GrabPERF, Web performance, GSM, CDMA, Web site, mobile, wireless, US, Asia, Europe
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
20 Apr 2007Many thanks to Otis Gospodnetic of Simpy for putting me in contact with Benjamin Reitzammer. Benjamin has graciously set up the GrabPERF measurement script on his server in Zurich.
Now that the Europeans have a growing presence on the GrabPERF Network, we need some locations in the US and Asia-Pacific.
Tags: GrabPERF, Simpy, Benjamin Reitzammer, measurement agent, [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
4 Apr 2007This morning, after months of increasing performance issues, and connectivity issues, I have retired the Boston Verizon measurement location. This location hosted 2 measurement agents.
The machines, hosted in my basement, are connected using Verizon FiOS, which has become increasingly flaky over the last couple of months. As well, the machines are 7 year old Pentium [...]
My side project, GrabPERF, is looking for a few good measurement locations.
Right now, there are only five measurement locations, two of which are in my basement, on my personal Internet connection. I am hoping, through this pledge drive, to find a number of additional locations. Areas desperately needed include:
East Coast, USA
West Coast, USA
Midwest, USA
UK
Asia-Pac
Southeast Asia
Australia [...]
In: Blogging| GrabPERF| Web Performance
12 Jan 2007Every day, the Digg search measurement times explode.
Maybe they need to look at that code again…
Technorati Tags: Digg, Digg.com, GrabPERF, Web+performance
I have been running the GrabPERF Compression and Performance study for less than a week, but I thought that I should share some of the initial results with everyone.
As you can see above, the byte transmission savings gained by some sites is pretty astounding. Google News sends a pages with a median weight of near [...]
Ok, the Blogger blogs all use GZIP compression.
BUT! The Blogger.com homepage does not.
Ummm…attention to detail? Anyone?
Technorati Tags: Blogger, Upgrade, HTTP+Compression, Web+compression, QA, GrabPERF, Web+Performance
One of the performance hits that the GrabPERF system has is the dynamic generation of the main page. The nature of the SQL calls and the underlying PHP makes it scale exponentially past a certain number of measurements.
Last night, Kevin Burton made a grand suggestion: generate a static page on a regular schedule.
Duh!
Today, I wrote [...]