Yesterday, the big web news story of the day was the NYT outage. But the bigger performance story of the day was not the fact the NYT was down for a few hours, but rather, how the NYT team did all the right things to handle the outage. On our end,…
Today many websites leverage Real User Measurement (RUM) technologies to measure and optimize user experience. The primary method to collect the data is based on the Navigation Timing API spec from W3C. The API allows browsers to pass to website developers accurate timings for key milestones of loading a webpage. The specification…
On Wednesday night users trying to access LinkedIn site were redirected to servers owned by Confluence Labs. The outage lasted a couple of hours and a post mortem Thursday described the issue as caused by human error at Network Solutions, provider for LinkedIn’s DNS. Immediate effect of the outage is…
This post has nothing to do with web performance… well kind of. Starting a company is an adventure, with its highs and lows. It’s a real roller coaster, but no one told us that when we decided to leave our comfortable jobs at Google almost 5 years ago. The highlights for me are always customer-related. …
According to IBM, Black Friday 2012 sales increased by 20%, Cyber Monday by 30% from last year. We monitored the web performance of 70 website (Excluding Netflix, Blockbuster, 1800 Flowers, Scholastic, and Redcats USA ) from our US Nodes using Internet Explorer 8 browser. The goal was to compare the performance of…
Like every performance geek, I just came back from my 4th Conference pilgrimage. This year’s 2012 Velocity Conf was fantastic! Throughout the conference I got the feeling that people are starting to take performance more seriously than ever. Attendance was up and there were a lot of new faces alongside the veterans.…
I have always been a big fan of the Olympics, as I was growing up it was a huge family event, another occasion to get together, eat, shout, and laugh. In the US, to keep up with the medals you have to rely on NBC, as they are the official…
Back in October 2011 we wrote about web pages turning into airports without air controllers. Web pages have become a very complex ecosystem relying on many third-party tags for advertising, behavioral targeting, social plugins, etc. This is all fine and many of these are great solutions. However, very few websites have…
