Hi Heiko, I am aware of the issues you described. But measuring the performance like it is experienced by our customers is hard, because the data has still a...
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ernest.mueller@...
mxyzplkiv
Sep 3, 2008 1:49 pm
There are a couple approaches to this. To answer your question directly, if you want a WAN simulator for "in the lab" use there's plenty of those. Shunra's VE...
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mxyzplkiv
Sep 3, 2008 1:53 pm
Oh, I can't forget Anue Systems as another WAN emulator, they're a new kid on the block so are probably a good bit more affordable than Shunra. But those may...
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ernest.mueller@...
mxyzplkiv
Sep 3, 2008 2:13 pm
Yeah, we use wildcard certs and it's more expensive but not prohibitive (especially if you don't go with Verisign - we use them because our business folks like...
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ernest.mueller@...
mxyzplkiv
Sep 3, 2008 3:10 pm
I do want to note that the whole hostname/domainname thing is a huge thorn in the side of Web folks. Some technologies like cookies work at the domain level....
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daveartz
Sep 4, 2008 12:54 pm
There's a setting in Internet Explorer's advanced options called "enable http 1.1 through proxy connections" - this is important to helping Charles behave more...
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ASKME
paranoiabots
Sep 5, 2008 3:07 pm
Hey everyone, I have been working hard on implementing the performance enhancements suggested in the YSlow plugin for FF. My first question is about Etags it...
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Philip Tellis
philiptellis
Sep 5, 2008 3:57 pm
... The seed value should be the same on all servers, but for most cases, that makes your ETags no different from the Last-Modified time, so it does not have...
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Patrick Meenan
pmeenan
Sep 5, 2008 5:25 pm
Two parallel connections for the sprites is actually worse than having it as one large sprite over a single connection. The multiple connections help hide the...
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srinivas_surapaneni
srinivas_sur...
Sep 8, 2008 5:44 pm
On my web page there are 5 js files with the total size of 200k When I look at the http headers, it is showing 304 status code if I refresh the page But Yslow...
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srinivas_surapaneni
srinivas_sur...
Sep 8, 2008 5:44 pm
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Nick
southofheaven
Sep 12, 2008 1:07 am
I'm playing around with using mod_expires under Apache 2.2. I've never used Expires before, but I'm seeing some weird things happening. When I browse to a page...
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Nick
southofheaven
Sep 12, 2008 2:02 am
Nevermind, I had misconfigured apache and it wasn't picking up my .htaccess file (and thus not adding Expires). It's working now....
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Patrick Meenan
pmeenan
Oct 13, 2008 2:06 pm
The guys at Aptimize <http://www.getrpo.com/> have stood up an instance of pagetest in New Zealand for the public to use at http://www.webpagetest.org.nz...
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Oren Levin (Audible US)
pinetree
Oct 13, 2008 5:31 pm
Patrick / Aptimize, Wow! Thank you for a great tool. Is there information available on the steps required to put a pagetest server in place? Also, is there an...
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Patrick Meenan
pmeenan
Oct 13, 2008 6:00 pm
Ping me offline (PatMeenan@...) if you're interested in standing up an instance (either for public consumption or for testing inside of your firewall). I...
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Oren Levin (Audible US)
pinetree
Oct 13, 2008 6:42 pm
Pat, Again, thank you for a great tool. I especially like the start render and document complete bars in the waterfall. I can see using this alongside Firebug,...
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Patrick Meenan
pmeenan
Oct 18, 2008 3:09 am
We had a spare system lying around so I loaded it up with IE8 beta 2 for public testing (http://www.webpagetest.org <http://www.webpagetest.org> ). With the...
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mtkarimi
Oct 22, 2008 11:22 pm
hi there people people its show time sorry i need a plugin in yahoo! messenger that when i logged in to messenger it save it and when i logged out it save it ...
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Philip Santosh Tellis
philiptellis
Oct 23, 2008 1:26 am
... Sorry, but this is beyond the scope of the exceptional performance Yahoo! group....
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alohashirt99
Nov 6, 2008 12:38 am
You really can't rely on those numbers. More important is the response time that a "real" user sees. On Gomez' homepage they have a free test app that will...
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Patrick Meenan
pmeenan
Nov 25, 2008 2:18 pm
So, with pagetest <http://www.webpagetest.org> having been up for 8 months now with close to 26,000 tests having been run I thought it would be worthwhile to...
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Chris Korhonen
chriskorhonen
Nov 25, 2008 3:07 pm
That's interesting but too be honest I'm not totally shocked - the average user tends not to get deep (by choice or simply due to lack of access) into the kind...
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Patrick Meenan
pmeenan
Nov 25, 2008 3:21 pm
I don't think it's restricted to the average user. Something like CNN.com actually has a dedicated group of SA's. Persistent connections are enabled by...
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Chris Korhonen
chriskorhonen
Nov 25, 2008 3:34 pm
In larger organizations it is often still the case where the web developers do not have access to the production servers, or to their configuration - you'll...
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Peter Booth
alohashirt99
Nov 25, 2008 6:15 pm
Patrick, You provided an opportunity for me to ask a question that I have been wrestling with for a long time: If you imagine a web server that returns a...
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Patrick Meenan
pmeenan
Nov 25, 2008 8:48 pm
Usually the conditional get is done if the resource is still in the cache but the expires date has passed. If it is before the expiration date the request...
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Joe Pearson
joewxboy
Nov 26, 2008 1:44 pm
... developers ... configuration - ... even ... place ... Here's what I've found, working for a large site: 1) There is a constant tension between the content...
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Peter Booth
alohashirt99
Nov 26, 2008 2:06 pm
Heinlein's Razor: Never attribute to malice, what can easily be explained by stupidity. One of those adages that can help us stay sane. One of those aphorisms ...
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Bill Moseley
whmoseley
Nov 26, 2008 3:53 pm
... We have a variation on that approach. Instead of a version number we use an MD5 of the content, and it's cached for years. That way the cache is bused...
