Posts Tagged ‘WebPerformance.Org

For a number of years, I have owned three very popular domain names: WebPerformance.org, WebCaching.org, and WebCompression.org. Last night, after many days of consideration, I stopped pointing them at their own distinct Web space and pointed them at this blog.
This is not a bad or evil thing, considering that for at least 18 months, the [...]

Well, the irony of this is painful.
I went with 1&1 as the hosting location for my personal domains, including WebPerformance.org.
One of the things that I preach there is the use of compression.
Guess what? 1&1 doesn’t use Web compression on their servers.
Ugh.

If you ask 15 different people what the phrase Web performance means to them, you will get 30 different answers. Like all things in this technological age, the definition is in the eye of the beholder. To the Marketing person, it is delivering content to the correct audience in a manner that converts visitors into [...]

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 [...]

A 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 [...]

I just had a look at the list of domains that I own and realize thatI want/need to clean house. There are 3 domains that I want to keep,and 9 that I am looking to get rid of.

Domains that I want to unload include:

mod-deflate.net
mod-deflate.org
performancecore.org
performancecorps.org
performancefreaks.org
performanceguru.org
performanceindex.org
searchindex.org
webcaching.org
webcompression.org
webperformance.org

Currently asking $2,000 each for webperformance.org, webcaching.org, searchindex.org, performanceindex.org, and webcompression.org, and [...]

UPDATE: We have a new home:
http://newestindustry.wordpress.com/
Stop by and check us out.

UPDATE: The shutdown date has been set.
NOVEMBER 22, 2005

Ok folks, this is it.
Last Call.
We have reached a point where the cost of the cable modem that connects my servers to the Internet has to be slashed.
Without the semi-static IP that I have had for the [...]

Domains for Sale

In: smp

26 Sep 2005

Ok folks. We sat down and did an evaluation of the finances today…and we’re broke.
Very broke.
So, I have had to buckle down and put some of my high-value domains up for sale. Right now, they are up on Sedo.

Yes, webperformance.org is up for sale. Unfortunately, I need the money more than I need the domain [...]

American Red Cross:
I know you have other things on your plate right now, but you seem to have a DNS problem.
redcross.org. 86400 IN NS arcdns3.redcross.org.
redcross.org. [...]

I started gathering data on a number of large MSM Web sites, and created an index, similar to what I created for Search sites.
Check it out!
GrabPERF News Index

Technorati: GrabPERF, Web Performance, Web Performance Measurement, Web Performance Monitoring, msm, mainstream media
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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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