Secrets of Website Performance

Website owners view “website performance monitoring” from many different perspectives. These perspectives vary based on the monitoring technologies/services, requirements, and goals for a website. So, when answering the question “What is website performance monitoring?” is asked is the answer “Whatever you want it to mean?” No. In fact, as a general rule, and for reasons of practicality, website “performance monitoring” is often categorized into different “levels” of monitoring... Read→

An ordinary website has 5-15 JavaScript files and several inline pieces of code that can include external libraries. As a result there are 10-20 pieces that can be combined together. The benefits are obvious: faster page load time, customer satisfaction and better DDoS fault tolerance – under attack, every connection, even static, may lead to denial of service. If you think that you can just put all the JavaScript code into one file, you are going to get upset very quickly. Indeed, most likely... Read→

Dotcom-Monitor, (www.Dotcom-Monitor.com), a leading provider of external active monitoring and analysis solutions,  today announced the immediate availability of the most cost-effective, advanced web application monitoring tool on the market today for monitoring user experience, UserView Monitoring™. UserView Monitoring™ is a proactive, regular browser-based web application monitoring tool, providing real-time monitoring, alerts, and reports on a user’s experience of web application performance... Read→

Dotcom-Monitor® today announced the general availability of its Uptime Meter, a new tool to monitor and display a website’s uptime and performance in 30-minute intervals. Dotcom-Monitor®’s Uptime Meter is available free-for-download at Dotcom-Monitor®’s site. Dotcom-Monitor®’s Uptime Meter tool provides customers a unique, easy-to-use, targeted solution for quickly monitoring and validating uptime that affects website performance and revenues. The Uptime Meter is designed... Read→

WordPress platform is perfect for everyday blogging, it’s easy to install and use, but only until your posts begin attracting public attention. As soon as your blog becomes popular, it takes more and more time for the pages to load and of course your readers don’t like this. Gradually you start hating all the shiny features that WordPress usually boasts of. At this point you become concerned about your blog performance. Good news – there are many things to tune in WordPress to make it... Read→

Someone must stress-test the cloud if we want to take it seriously, as a real IT resource for the real business. On the last week some Australian researchers took up the challenge, and the stress-tests showed that the infrastructure of on-demand services offered by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft suffers from regular performance and availability issues. Researchers have created a web load stress test that simulated 2200 simultaneous user connections to applications hosted on Amazon EC2, Google... Read→

There are 6 basic strategies to improve your website performance.  I am going to name them in this post and describe them more thoroughly in my future materials. Of course, you cannot boost your website performance if you do only one thing. But if you succeed in at least 3 – your site’s visitors will definitely appreciate your effort! Here are the strategies: 1. Objects size Minimization. Make sure your (X)HTML, CSS and JavaScript files occupy as little space as possible. Trim white spaces,... Read→

There are 6 basic strategies to improve your web site performance.  I am going to name them in this post and describe them more thoroughly in my future materials. Of course, you cannot boost your website performance if you do only one thing. But if you succeed in at least 3 – your site’s visitors will definitely appreciate your effort! Here are the strategies: 1. Objects size Minimization. Make sure your (X)HTML, CSS and JavaScript files occupy as little space as possible. Trim white spaces,... Read→

The first step on your way to a very fast website is object size minimization. What files must be minified? What are the best minimization techniques? How object size minimization will affect your visitors’ experience? Read our Website Performance Guide Step 1 to find the answers to all your questions. What files should you compress? Well, in fact the right answer is  – all the files. First, let’s start with text files. You must remove all the HTML & Javascript comments, line breaks,... Read→