One of the biggest challenges for online companies is troubleshooting an unexpected slowness of their web site or application in highly distributed architecture. Pinpointing the exact root cause of the slowness is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Looking at a typical large scale web site infrastructure you…
For our frequent readers, it is no surprise that we firmly believe DNS has a huge impact on Performance. One of the biggest challenges with DNS is understanding what impact various DNS issues can have on end users. DNS resolution is complex and we lack insight on how end users’…
While monitoring the performance of the Internet Retailer Top 50 Retailers this past Holiday Season, we also tracked what third party vendors and CDNs were utilized and measured their impact on each website. The data collected not only offered insights on what third parties and CDNs are most utilized, but…
According to ComsScore, Retail online spending for the entire November – December 2011 holiday season touched $37.2 Billion, an increase of 15% versus last year. In a perfect world these numbers look great for the state of ecommerce, but we (and cyberspace) exist in a world governed by Murphy’s Law. Anything…
As we are closing 2011, take a look at our most popular and insightful blog posts: A New Blind Spot for Web Performance Tools (03/02/2011): We cover a new monitoring blind spot with Internet Explorer tools when measuring iframe response time. If a JavaScript is executed right after iframe request…
In my conversations with customers and prospects we often talk about one of the biggest IT problems: “How can we make the website faster for end users”. Obviously Web Performance Optimization (WPO) techniques are key to faster webpage and Google Page Speed score is a key tool on measuring how…
As I look back at the state of 2011 web operations, the thing that impressed me the most was the success of the Web Performance Optimization (WPO) movement. Comparing it to recent world events, I think this movement is the “Arab Spring” of the Web Development and Operations community. Web Performance meetups launched everywhere…
According to StatCounter’s final data for the month of November, Chrome 15 (23.6%) fought all the way to the top in the last week and squeaked by IE8 as the world’s most popular browser (23.5%)! Last time we checked in with Chrome 15, it was pulling ahead of Firefox…
The holidays are almost here and we could not have closed 2011 without one more stocking stuffer for our end users. Last night we rolled out the December release, the last release for 2011, which was packed with features. Our engineering team completed work on more than 100 user…
This November, Google’s little browser that could, was able to. Across the globe, Chrome usage (25.69%) finally surpassed Firefox (25.23%) – making it #2 after Internet Explorer (40.63%) as the most used browser on a monthly basis, according to StatCounter, a website analytics company.
