Application Performance, Scalability and Architecture

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]