OCSP and the GoDaddy Event
Image by vissago – http://www.flickr.com/photos/vissago/ The GoDaddy DNS event (which I wrote about here) has been the subject of many a post-mortem and water-cooler conversation in the web performance...
View ArticleHTTP Compression – Have you checked ALL your browsers?
Apache has been my web server of choice for more than a decade. It was one of the first things I learned to compile and manage properly on linux, so I have a great affinity for it. However, there are...
View ArticleThe Rule of Thirds: The Web Performance Analyst
Recently, there has been a big push for the Dev/Ops culture, an integrated blending of development and operations who work closely together to ensure that poor performing web and mobile applications...
View ArticleReal User Measurement – A tool for the whole business
The latest trend in web performance measurement is the drive to implement Real User Measurement (RUM) as a component of a web performance measurement strategy. As someone who cut their teeth on...
View ArticleManaging Performance Measurement: Who uses this stuff anyway?
One of the least glamorous parts of managing performance measurement data is the time I have to take every month to wade through my measurements and decide which stay on and which get shut off. Since...
View ArticleWeb Performance – At What Cost? Trends for 2013
As we moved through the traditional start of the holiday shopping season (Thanksgiving / Black Friday / Cyber Monday), it is clear that most sites were prepared for what was coming. No big names went...
View ArticleEffective Web Performance – Will A CDN Really Solve The Problem?
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have been available for over a decade, with companies leaning on these distributed networks to accelerate the delivery of their content, absorb the load of the peak...
View ArticleWeb Performance Trends for 2013 – Performance Optimization
As we approach the end of 2012, I will be looking at a few trends that will become important in 2013. In a previous post, I identified optimization as an important performance trend to watch. It is one...
View ArticlePerformance Trends 2013 – Employees are Customers too
Peter Levine from Andreesen Horowitz wrote an article on The Renaissance of Enterprise Computing yesterday that finally sprouted the seed of an idea that has been dormant at the back of my brain for a...
View ArticlePerformance Trends for ???? – Smarter Systems
Most of the trending items that I have discussed in the last two weeks are things that can be done today, problems that we are aware of and know need to be resolved. One item on my trend list, the...
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