Testing and Optimizing of what I call “traditional” page-based web applications is not too hard to do. Take CNN as an example. You have the home page www.cnn.com. From there you can click through the news sections such as U.S, World, Politics, … – each click loading a new page with a unique URL. Testing [...]
One of our clients occasionally runs into the following problem with their web app: They host their B2B web application in their East Coast Data Center with their clients accessing the app from all around the United States. Occasionally they have clients complaining about bad page load times or that certain features just don’t work [...]
When building distributed applications one of the central performance-critical components is serialization. Most modern frameworks make it very easy to send data over the wire. In many cases you don’t see at all what is going on behind the scenes. Choosing the right serialization strategy however is central for achieving good performance and scalability. Serialization [...]
I recently got engaged with a client who ran an increasing load test against their load-balanced application. I got engaged because they had a phenomenon they couldn’t explain – here is an excerpt of the email: We have a jBoss application with mySQL that runs stable in a load testing environment with let’s say 20 [...]
Lucy Monahan, Principle QA Performance Engineer at Novell, approached this with the following problem proposition: Imagine that you go to a shop to buy something and instead of customers lining up one-by-one, sequentially, each one vies for the shopkeeper’s attention. And imagine that you arrived as customer #2 and the shopkeeper takes one or more [...]
We just launched our new corporate web site. Right after the site went live it was time for me to analyze its performance with our dynaTrace AJAX Edition. Everything looked good – no problems on the page -straight A’s on the Performance Report (read more on this on my blog How we improved our Performance [...]
Timed with our new product launch we also updated our corporate website. Not only did we update the content, we also applied some of the Best Practices that Alois and I have been talking about in the past 12 months. When we introduced the new Performance Report in dynaTrace AJAX Edition 2.0 Beta we got [...]
In the last post I discussed benchmarking as the first use case for Web Performance Optimization (WPO). This time I will take a closer look at optimization. After we have discovered how our site behaves compared to our competition – or any reference we might want to benchmark against – we want to learn how [...]
Web Performance Optimization (WPO) constitutes of a set of activities targeted at improving the performance of web applications. First coined by Steve Souders WPO is developing into a growing industry. Every month new companies and projects offering web performance services emerge. WPO is much more than performance analysis; however, performance analysis is a central part [...]
Watch the 7 Minute Walk-Through Video that guides you through the Integration described in this blog post. Load Testing has traditionally been done In-House with load-testing tools using machines in your test center to generate HTTP traffic against the application needing to be tested for high volume transactions. With agile development practices, shorter release cycles and [...]
