Web Performance

70% of tablet users expect a site to load in under 2 seconds.

This week begins face to face meetings at the IETF on how to approach HTTP 2.0 and improve the Internet. How the industry moves forward together on the next version of HTTP - how every application and service on the web communicates today - can positively impact user experience, operational and environmental costs, and even the battery life of the devices you carry around.

Speedlimit is a Leopard preference pane for limiting your network bandwidth to one of a couple different speeds.

The advantage with WebSockets (over AJAX) is basically that there's less HTTP overhead. Once the connection has been established, all future message passing is over a socket rather than new HTTP request/response calls. So, you'd assume that WebSockets can send and receive much more messages per unit time.

"Slowy is a tool which simulates custom connection's conditions and limits the network traffic to a specified destination port. It is created for web developers, like me, who need to test a website with a real-world connection, even on a local server. Slowy is an OSX MenuBar app, so it is lightweight and is placed only on the system topbar. "

"WBL_Minify extension enables minification of magento css merged files and/or javascript merged files."

There was a time when doing a Website Load Test for a client using a Content Distribution Network (CDN) was an infrequent activity, but these days it's a common occurrence. There are more CDN suppliers of course, the newer ones such as MaxCDN, the traditional big names like Akamai and LimeLight, and some Datacentres such as UKFast offer CDN services directly to clients themselves.

Depending on whom you ask, the ideal page load can be 100 milliseconds, 400 milliseconds, 2 seconds... you get the picture. In our industry, we talk a lot about big, hairy, audacious performance goals, but what about the other end of the spectrum: the performance poverty line?

SPDY is awesome. It's the first real upgrade to HTTP in 10+ years, it tackles high latency mobile networks performance issues and it makes the web more secure. SPDY is different than HTTP in many ways, but its primary value comes from being able to multiplex many requests/responses from client to server over a single (or few) TCP connections.

Thursday, May 31, 2012, we delivered the Windows 8 Release Preview and the Sixth IE10 Platform Preview. Windows 8 includes one HTML5 browsing engine that powers both browsing experiences (Metro style and desktop) as well as Metro style applications that use HTML5 and JavaScript.

We do website monitoring the way athletes do their thing - with passion! When they hear "challenge", they understand hard athletic work and dedication to get to the top, when we hear "challenge", though - we understand website performance, optimization, graphs, stats, you get the point.