8 hours ago by smp

Why GrabPERF? About four years ago, I had a bright idea that I would like to learn more about how to build and scale a small Web performance measurement platform. I’ve worked in the Web performance industry for nearly a decade now, and this was an experimental platform for me to examine and encounte ...

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11 hours ago by smp

Introduction to the Series This is the first of a four-part series focusing on the reasons why companies measure their Web performance. This perspective is substantially different than ones posited by others in the field as they focus on the meat and potatoes reasons, rather than the sometimes more ...

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21 hours ago by website optimization

The Web has changed dramatically over the past seven years. During that time the Web has moved from a static one-way medium toward a dynamic platform for interactive services such as photo and video sharing portals. In a comparative survey of data traces served over the Web from 2000 and 2007, Unive ...

Speed Tweak of the Week - websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak · Rank: 99,655 · 170 references

2 days ago by smp

The GrabPERF Black Friday Dashboard is done for another year and there were two performance victims that suffered the most at the hands of the onslaught of bargain-hunters in the area of Web performance. Some caveats that I need to mention about the GrabPERF measurement methodology. Only the base HT ...

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32 days ago by admin

Back in May, I talked about the impact of ad performance on Web page load time, and that I helped form the Ad Load Performance Working Group within the IAB to try to do something about it. The first output from this working group was announced today at the IAB Ad Operations Summit in New York. (more ...

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32 days ago by Martin

Microsoft’s Visual Round Trip Analyzer helps web developers and testers visualize the performance of a website by providing in depth statistics about it. The software program relies on Microsoft’s Network Monitor which has to be installed to capture the traffic. A good practice would be to install t ...

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34 days ago by admin

Your Web site experienced an outage or degradation of some kind - an installation gone wrong, a server crash, a network problem, etc. How do you quantify the impact of that event? Wouldn’t it be great to be able to assign a dollar value to an outage? That can go a long way to help build a business c ...

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40 days ago by Rubem Azenha

Performance é uma coisa complicada. Sempre tem alguma coisa para melhorar na aplicação. Banco de dados, cluster, replicação de estado, cache dos dados, load-balance, pooling de recursos, processamento assincrono, networking, I/O… São tantas coisas que podem causar problemas de performance, gargalos, ...

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42 days ago by website optimization

There are a number of books published now on Web Performance. Here is a summary of the books available on the topic, mainly from O'Reilly. In a July 2008 blog post, my editor at O'Reilly Simon St.Laurent compared Building Scalable Web Sites by Carl Henderson, High Performance Web Sites by Steve Soud ...

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45 days ago by website optimization

This article shows how response times improved after upgrading to a new dedicated web server with solid-state drives and faster processors. With the increased load due to our free Web Page Analyzer, we realized that a different server configuration may be necessary. We first benchmarked our current ...

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