Showing posts with label: Performance

After spending a lot of time focusing on Client-Side Web 2.0 Performance Problems it is time to focus on specific Server-Side Performance Problems. Last week I worked with a client that runs a custom application on Microsoft CRM 4.0 and experienced performance problems in their test environment. Individual web requests to query or update data [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I am hosting a Webinar with IntraLinks this Wednesday. The following overview of the webinar is taken from the guest blog I wrote for the IntraLinks blog as posted on July 13th 2010:
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The Cloud has become the hot topic in the past year, with many major technology leaders (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, SalesForce.com, etc.) [...]

I occasionally get invited to do JavaScript/AJAX Performance Workshops. Last week I spent two days with a group of dynaTrace AJAX Users that work in a performance task force group within their R&D Organization. I asked them about the reasons for this Client-Side Performance Initiative. They told me the following story:
One of our sales managers [...]

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 [...]

Velocity was probably the best stage for this announcement and it was great that we got a slot on the Lightening Demo’s to show what’s new from dynaTrace.

The dynaTrace Labs team has worked hard on the next version of the dynaTrace AJAX Edition. Since its inception, dynaTrace AJAX Edition got a lot of great and [...]

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 [...]