Showing posts with label: BestPractice

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Last week’s Walkthrough Webinar on the new dynaTrace AJAX Edition 2.0 Beta 1 is now available for public access: View Webinar on ajax.dynatrace.com
If you have any feedback on either the new dynaTrace AJAX Edition or the Best Practice Documents then please use our Community Forum an let us know about it.
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JavaScript can save your day or it can cause you nightmares. JavaScript and XHR (XmlHttpRequest) enable what the industry considers to be Web 2.0 – meaning highly interactive web sites where some application logic is pushed down to the client into the browsers JavaScript engine. As with any application code – [...]

Over the last couple of years performance of web applications became more important to businesses as search engines (such as Google) factor in performance into their ranking. This ultimately leads to Performance == Better Visibility == More Users == More Revenue. Read more on Why Web Performance Optimization [...]

In this post I discuss the seven most important steps to improve your application performance practices. These simple-to-follow practices will help you to improve the way you deal with application performance. Besides eventually improving the performance of your applications it will help you to avoid playing the classical blame game which normally happens when something [...]

For a recent edition of the Swiss Computerworld Magazine we listed our Top 10 Performance Problems as we have seen them over the years when working with our clients. I hope this list is enlightening – and I’ve included follow-up links to the blogs to help better understand how to solve these problems:
#1: Too Many [...]