After spending a lot of time focusing on Client-Side Web 2.0 Performance Problems it is time to focus on specific Server-Side Performance Problems. Last week I worked with a client that runs a custom application on Microsoft CRM 4.0 and experienced performance problems in their test environment. Individual web requests to query or update data [...]
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Inspired by the Top 10 Performance Problems post which focuses on Server-Side performance problems taken from companies such as Zappos, Thomson, Monster and Novell I came up with the Top 10 Client-Side performance problems in Web 2.0 applications I’ve seen when working with our dynaTrace AJAX Edition users.
Symptom: JavaScript blocking resource downloads and slowing page [...]
How to Automate Google Analytics Analysis Aug 17, 10
This is a two part article – also read Combining Analytics with Performance Management Data.
I use Google Analytics every day to look at Key Web Performance Metrics to answer questions like:
How many people visit our blog?
I look at the Visitor Overview which shows me how many Visitors and Unique Visitors we have
Did they find us [...]
My mobile contract is expiring soon, so I went online and checked the different mobile companies for their offerings. All of these sites have a page where you get an overview of all the different phone models available. One one page I noticed that the list of phones started with an empty grid – and [...]
Read full post >>At Velocity we announced dynaTrace Ajax Edition 2.0 beta 1 (watch the Lightning demo). Besides other great features (see the complete walkthrough video) we have added support for automatically uploading measurement results to ShowSlow.com.
We have worked over the last couple of weeks to automate this process and now continuously upload performance metrics to ShowSlow. So [...]
This is the English translation of my German article published on Create or Die today.
What factors make you think a web page is good or not? What keeps on that page longer than others? On the one hand it is the content on the page and whether this content is of interest to you. On [...]
Measurement is the most central concept in any performance-related activity. If you are not measuring you are blind. As important as measuring per se is collecting the right measurements. Which metrics are the right ones depends on what you want to do. However there are some general principles which – when followed – can make [...]
Read full post >>During last weeks webinar – Charlie Weiblen from IntraLinks talked about how the manage performance of their SaaS running in their private cloud. You should listen to the full recorded webinar to learn more on how they transformed from traditional performance monitoring to performance management.
As a teaser to the webinar I want you to watch [...]
A client of ours recently contacted me with the question: We use Keynote, WebPagetest and dynaTrace AJAX – but we get different results with these tools/services. WebPagetest tells us that our page is very slow – but dynaTrace on my local machine does not. What can be the problem here? What’s the difference?
I took a [...]
If you care about Web Performance then you should check if there is a local Web Performance Meetup Group in your area. Jonathan Klein just recently started a new Group in Boston. Sergey Chernyshev runs his Group in New York City.
Both guys invited me to give a detailed Hands-On overview of the latest dynaTrace AJAX [...]
