Today’s web sites are often cluttered up with third party content that slows down page load and rendering times, hampering user experience. In my first blog post, I’ve presented how third party content impacts your website’s performance and identified common problems with its integration. Today I want to share the experience I have made as [...]
The busiest online shopping time in history has brought a significant increase in visits and revenue over last year. But not only were shoppers out there hunting for the best deals. Web performance experts and the media were out there waiting for problems to happen in order to blog and write about the business impact [...]
The busiest online shopping season is about to start and it’s time to make a quick check on whether the top shopping sites are prepared for the big consumer rush or whether they are likely going to fail because their pages are not adhering to Web performance best practices. The holiday rush seems to start [...]
Are you running an eCommerce site that relies on 3rd Party Services such as Address-Validation, Credit Card Authorization or Mapping Services? Do you know how fast, reliable and accurate these service calls (free or charged) are for your web site? Do you know whether it has an impact on your end users in case one [...]
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 term Business Transactions and Business Transaction Management is widely used in the industry but it is not always well understood what we really mean by it. The BTM Industry Portal provides some good articles on this topic and is definitely recommended to check out. The general goal is to answer business relevant questions that [...]
We often see request error rates as an indicator for SLA compliance. Reality however shows that this draws a wrong picture. Let’s start with an example. We had a meeting with a customer and were talking about their SLA and what it is based on. Like in many other cases the request error rate was [...]
There is no doubt that performance is important for your business. If you don’t agree you should check out what we and others think about the Performance Impact on Business or remember headlines like these: Target.com web site was down after promoting a new labels: Article on MSN Twitter was down and people complaining about [...]
We like to blog about real life scenarios to demonstrate practical examples on how to manage application performance. In this blog I will tell you how we internally improved page load time for some of our community users by 3.5 seconds by simply following our own web performance guidelines that we promote through our blog, [...]
I was looking at Cassandra, one of the major NoSQL solutions, and I was immediately impressed with its write speed even on my notebook. But I also noticed that it was very volatile in its response time, so I took a deeper look at it. First Cassandra Write Test I did the first write tests [...]
