Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Internet| Web Performance| Web analytics| WebPerformance.Org| analytics| performance index| search
20 Mar 2009About four years ago, I published/posted a number of indices related to GrabPERF data. This is a re-launch of that, starting with the GrabPERF Search Performance Index.
The methodology of the Search Performance Index is straightforward: A number of key search providers are selected and HTTP GET requests are sent that directly pull the results page [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance| search
16 Mar 2009Today I would like to announce the availability of the GrabPERF Search Performance Index.
The goal of the index is to provide performance metrics for a group of search providers around the world. The results are based on a direct HTTP GET request being made for the search results page by the GrabPERF Agent.
Currently only live [...]
My Google Alerts today picked up a post from a former colleague of mine, commenting on another post from the Yahoo! Interface blog.
I had some problems following the stream in the Performance Matters post, so I thought I would this post to clear up my thoughts.
A technical note up front: Using a waterfall chart that [...]
In: RANTING| Web Performance
11 Apr 2006Dear Gmail:
This is unacceptable.
So much for the massively scalable and redundant architecture theory.
I still have my Yahoo! Mail account….
Technorati Tags: Gmail, Google, frustration, Yahoo!
In: RANTING| Web Performance
5 Apr 2006Ya know, this is getting really tiresome…
Is it time to move back to Yahoo! Mail? Does Google care that they have performance problems?
Technorati Tags: Gmail, Google, errors, unreliable, capacity planning, web performance
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
22 Oct 2005The Yahoo! BlogSearch started off showing less than remarkable results in terms of performance (I leave the qalitative judgement to other critics). Over the last 11 days, the team at Yahoo! have realized that there may be an issue, and they have been working on it.
On Thursday afternoon (Oct 20, 2005), they obviously implemented a [...]
In: smp
3 May 2005Business 2.0 is asking how much you would pay to read the NY Times online. [here]
My response: why? I don’t read newspapers anymore. I would pay nothing to read this online, when I can get news free from Reuters, BBC and Yahoo!, and commentary from blogs.
MSM just does not understand. Their model is broken. It [...]
In: smp
25 Apr 2005It’s official: DoubleClick is going private. [here and here]
This will be very interesting, especially as DoubleClick starts to feel the heat from AdSense and Yahoo! and any number of other small players.
I wonder if DoubleClick will be releasing an AdSense product, or if they will focus on their current market?
alarm:clock
The Street
Dave Winer notes that Silicon Valley isn’t what it used to be. [here]
Now, with Yahoo getting its mojo back [here and here], and a few other happenings in the Valley, there are some signs of life.
But there is still a lot of vacant real-estate. The office buildings that housed Webvan are still vacant after 3 [...]
In: smp
20 Mar 2005Worst kept secret on the net is now out — Yahoo! has purchased Flickr. [here and here]
Guess I should get either a decent mobile phone or a digital camera…
And I am so &*^*&^*&^ clueless that I didn’t even know that Flickr was
Canadian
From Vancouver
Well, if I can’t cheer for the Canucks, it’s good to have someone [...]