57 days ago by smp

I just did a quick experiment to validate my hunch, and it’s true – WP Super Cache can cut your HTML load time in half in your WP deployment. Just check out the GrabPERF Measurement that backs this up. Posted via email from Newest Industry Express Spread the Love:

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64 days ago by smp

The GrabPERF database server failed sometime early this morning. The hosting facility is working to install a new machine, and then will begin the long process of restoring from backups and memory. Updates will be posted here. UPDATE – Sep 4 2009 22:00 GMT: The database listener is up and data is fl ...

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89 days ago by smp

A decade of working in the Web performance industry can leave one with the idea that no matter how good a site is, there is always the opportunity to be better, be faster. However, I am beginning to believe, just from my personal experience on the Internet, that speed has reached its peak with the c ...

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162 days ago by smp

There will be GrabPERF downtime on May 29-30 2009 as Technorati completes its colocation relocation process. [ here] There is no set time for the outage or its length, as the machines have to be physically relocated to the new datacenter, and then integrated into the new network configuration. I wil ...

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226 days ago by smp

Tonight, I figured out how to add the Resolved IP Addresses for a host to measurement data and store that information for further debugging. It was very simple - I was trying to find complex solutions to this issue. Turns out the solution is built right into PERL: The Socket module. My thought is th ...

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249 days ago by smp

The GrabPERF Retail Web Performance Index is an extension of the Holiday Performance Index created for the Black Friday/Cyber Monday craze in 2008. There is a methodology statement explaining more about the index below the data table. Please add any comments or questions to this post.

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249 days ago by smp

On the weekend, I upgraded the database engine for GrabPERF to Mysql 5.1 and switched the main data table from MyISAM to InnoDB. The switch to InnoDB was done because of the locking issues that were occurring during long queries, especially when doing ad-hoc analysis. The row-level (versus table-lev ...

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