Posts containing the tag "web performance"

I recently gave a webinar on load testing best practices  to ensure holiday success. While the title is specifically geared towards the holiday shopping season, all of the techniques are applicable and relevant to everyday performance and operations activities. In all of our load testing with hundreds of different customers over the years, I've seen my share of high-performing and low-performing websites. The high-performing sites all have generally followed the same practices and metho...READ MORE

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load testing best practices / benchmarks / benchmarking / more…

Webmetrics Performance Blog

Time and time again, studies indicate that faster websites produce greater revenue. All too often, the approach toward increasing the speed of a site is seen as only a "technical challenge" that requires new hardware, better search algorithms and so forth. Often overlooked is the importance of having an efficient and effective user experience .At Velocity 2010 Stoyan Stefanov, a performance engineer at Yahoo! and architect of YSlow 2.0 , gave a talk on the Psychology of Performance...READ MORE

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user experience / UX / Stoyan Stefanov / more…

Webmetrics Performance Blog

If there is any question whether web performance and web operations is hot, you need only look at the attendance and interest in this year's O'Reilly Velocity conference . We're told that the total attendance topped 1,200 -- which is more than both previous years combined. In its third year, Velocity is quickly becoming a must for any web-based company. Below, I will attempt to summarize the general themes from this year's conference, and point out the most important trends/tools/news.This ye...READ MORE

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web operations / Velocity 2010 / Steve Souders / more…

Webmetrics Performance Blog

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