Since we announced our free performance book about a month ago we already had over 6000 Visitors. We wanted to create a source for performance practitioners where the can find the information the need to improve the performance of their applications. We will keep publishing new chapters on a monthly basis to eventually create a [...]
Application Performance, Scalability and Architecture
This proposal defines a potential future standard as an addition to those currently developed by the W3C Web Performance Working Group. It’s goal to gain visibility into JavaScript execution via a browser provided API accessible via JavaScript. Motivation Current specifications of the Web Performance Working cover page loading related metrics. They however lack insight the [...]
The increasing adoption of mobile applications as part of a company’s online services leads to the question whether we need to monitor like other parts of our IT infrastructure. As they are part of our shipped application services we need to ensure they are working properly. However, not every application must be monitored the same [...]
We are growing!
Today is great day for us. Due to our continuously growing user base we have decided to migrate our blog to a bigger server. As a performance blog we strive to provide great performance to our readers. Our performance monitoring has shown us that our end user response times were not that great so we [...]
MMT 28 – Slides and more
MMT 28 was a great conference. A lot of great talks and a very interested audience. I was lucky to speak about Web performance. As promised you can find my slides below. Also feel free to post questions on my talk. Web Performance Optimzation View more presentations from Alois Reitbauer.
The success of the Web performance movement shows that there is increasing interest and value in fast websites. That faster websites lead to more revenue and reduced costs is a well proven fact today. So being exceptionally fast is becoming the dogma for developing web applications. But what is exceptionally fast and how hard is [...]
Velocity Velocity comes to Europe and we will are there. You can find our presentations and links here. Today we had a talk on What it means to deliver exceptional performance and tomorrow Andi will give a Lightning Demo. Hope to see you there What it means to deliver exceptional performance View more presentations from [...]
The W3C Navigation Timing API has found its way into most modern browsers. It is also now already party supported in Firefox mobile and fully support on new Windows Mobile Phones. While this is a great step forward it should at the moment still be used with care. We at dynaTrace started using the Navigation [...]
More and more people are talking about the end of synthetic monitoring. It is associated with high costs and missing insight into real user performance. This is supported by the currently evolving standards of the W3C Performance Working Group which will help to get more accurate data from end users directly in the browser with [...]
Testing mobile web sites on the actual device is still a challenge. While tools like dynaTrace Ajax Edition make it very easy to get detailed performance data from desktop browsers, we do not have the same luxury for mobile. I was wondering whether desktop tooling can be used for analyzing and optimizing mobile sites. My idea was [...]



