Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
A few years ago, I wrote an article ablout how to best set up Web server cache-control messages to take advantage of this free form of content distribution. Until now, it has only existed as a PDF file.
Last night, I sent a copy to Kevin Burton of TailRank in response to some of his recent [...]
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23 Aug 2006A few years ago, I wrote an article on how GZIP compression improved Web performance. Don Marti at the Linux Journal was a great editor, and eventually, the article ended up in the online version of the Magazine.
At the time, I used Ian Holsman’s webperf.org (now renamed ITScales) to capture the data. Now that I [...]
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: GrabPERF| Web Performance
11 Aug 2006The new GrabPERF Agent code, with support for plain text or regular expression content matching, is now in production on all active measurement agents.
I added one more feature before I rolled out the new code: when a content match error occurs, the server headers and HTML content for 14 days.
I have not exposed this feature [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
11 Aug 2006Michael Arrington’s latest Crunch product, CrunchGear, is getting beat up this morning.
Ouch!
In the past, these would not appear as errors, but the new text match feature in GrabPERF is working like a charm. The new code is up on 3 of the 5 measurement agents, and the remaining 2 should be updated by tomorrow.
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In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
9 Aug 2006I now have a true live example of how text matching can provide information on issues where a successful page is returned.
In this example, the TEST AGENT returned a Text Match Failed error, while 3 of the agents running the current production code said the page was a success.
How do I know that the TEST [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
9 Aug 2006Ok folks, this is it. I have finally truly woken up from my slumber and I am starting to add features to the system.
Today’s latest: content | text matching.
This is a critical step in the development, as it allows for quality checking against the returned data. Currently, I can only catch errors under 3 defined [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
20 Feb 2006So, In my ongoing effort to be more transparent about the data that I find in GrabPERF, I have produced an Excel spreadsheet of Jan 21 – Feb 18 2006 Aggregated Data.
Top Twenty – Performance
Top Twenty – Availability
I hope to post this data more frequently in the future.
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In: Blogging| GrabPERF| Web Performance
25 Oct 2005The TypePad application is currently experiencing performance degradation.
You could say that.
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UPDATE: Looks like TypePad has returned to something resembling normal. Slow, but normal.
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UPDATE: Geek News Central commiserates with TypePad. [here]
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In: GrabPERF
11 Oct 2005The 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 [...]