37 days ago by web monitoring

In a sense, the Internet has come to embody the romantic American spirit, the idea that anything is possible, that everyone has the opportunity to make it big. It is the great enabler, forum and marketplace. It’s the first place we turn to connect with people, to speak out on issues, to market our w ...

43 days ago by kathleenisobel

The countdown to 2012 continues with Network Performance Management Prediction #2 – Mixing Business and IT! Productivity is dependent on a function network. If the phones are down, then so is business. Therefore, network performance solutions must provide actionable and easily understood information ...

60 days ago by alexsalkever

Note: This post originally appeared on the DTrace blog of @brendangregg I recently helped analyze a performance issue in an unexpected but common place, where the fix improved performance of a task by around 2000x (two thousand times faster). As this is short, interesting and useful, I’ve reproduced ...

60 days ago by alexsalkever

Note: This post originally appeared on the DTrace blog of @brendangregg I recently helped analyze a performance issue in an unexpected but common place, where the fix improved performance of a task by around 2000x (two thousand times faster). As this is short, interesting and useful, I’ve reproduced ...

61 days ago by Sergey Chernyshev

I’ve attended Google Apps Hackathon recently and coded up some web performance and Google Docuements awesomeness with the team of cool people! See more in ShowSlow blog: http://www.showslow.com/blog/measuring-web-performance-using-google-spreadsheets/

62 days ago by website optimization

Although 80% of web performance problems are typically due to front-end issues (Souders 2009), back-end bottlenecks can slow your site down to a crawl. One thing to watch out for is when static pages load relatively quickly, while dynamic pages load slowly. This article shows what to look for when a ...

63 days ago by Stephen Thair

What a great year it’s been for the London Web Performance Meetup! The group was started in January 2011 after being inspired by the work Sergey Chernyshev was doing in New York. Our group has now grown to have 422 members and continues to get excellent ratings from those who attend (4.61 out of 5 f ...

64 days ago by Jim Zhao

Recently we are looking at Javascript performance, and there are many good resources (like High Performance Javascript book), when looking at CSS, my first thought is all about selector. However, after reading http://www.slideshare.net/booshtukka/high-performance-css slide, I realize that apart from ...

72 days ago by Jim Zhao

I am working on performance optimization task for a web application for few months, here I am trying to summarize my understanding about performance optimization. Performance optimization needs culture Coding Honor says: Performance is a feature Fred Wilson's 10 Golden Principles say: speed is more ...

72 days ago by Aaron Rudger

For years, Keynote has been monitoring the ‘net’s best websites and reporting on notable outages during the peak Black Friday and Cyber Monday online shopping period. Typically, we find that many online retail sites—both pure Internet and those with brick and mortar stores—experience some issues. Bu ...