Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
Netcraft noted that Yahoo encountered a bit of a headache today. So I fired up my handy-dandy little performance system and had a look. Although for an organization and infrastructure the size of Yahoo’s this may have been a big event, in my experience, this was a "stuff happens on the Internet" sort of thing. [...]
This morning, after months of increasing performance issues, and connectivity issues, I have retired the Boston Verizon measurement location. This location hosted 2 measurement agents. The machines, hosted in my basement, are connected using Verizon FiOS, which has become increasingly flaky over the last couple of months. As well, the machines are 7 year old [...]
In: GrabPERF
13 Jul 2005Ensight and Blog Herald both discuss the floundering and thrashing of Technorati. My take is that they are having a success failure. © 2005 GrabPERF This is how long it takes their servers to deliver on a simple search for “new york”. I have discussed at various points throughout the last week that there are [...]
In: smp
8 Jul 2005You have noted that you are experiencing some performance issues related to high load (here). So I investigated and found that all the servers at the hostname www.technorati.com are responding with HTTP/1.0 headers and are explicitly closing the connections to the clients. Why? This will not relieve the performance problems. In fact, doing this may [...]
In: smp
9 Jun 2005There is a slight chance that I could be going to Germany at the end of the month, so I need some help. I am looking for reader comments/suggestion on a solid, robust, multi-country power adapter for my emergency bag (I fly off to foreign countries to solve Web performance issues almost daily — NOT!). [...]
In: smp
6 Jan 2005In writing the last post, I was thinking about what factors go into making the Web performance of a site "excellent". What defines in the minds of the sites users/customers/visitors/critics/competitors that the performance of a Web site is excellent? These are usually judged by the standard factors: Usability Responsiveness Availability Traffic Reliability Security Clarity But [...]