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The Hitwise Hotshop 50 list performance analysis

Friday, 23 December 2011 00:00 |

Written by Mick McGuinness |

Following the release of the Hitwise hotsop 50 list from IMRG and Experian in November, Mick McGuiness of Application Performance undertook some interesting analysis of the top sites. Here he explains the tests he did and the results that emerged.

Mick -medium2 The Hitwise list records the top 50 e-commerce sites in terms of volumes of traffic. Application Performance specialises in helping customers optimise site performance and we discovered some interesting results following our tests ...

Web Performance Alliance web site launched

Thursday, 29 September 2011 12:49 |

Written by Administrator |

http://www.websiteperformance.org.uk/ went live this week. The Website Performance Alliance (WPA) was formed by a group of UK companies (including Application Performance Ltd) who are passionate about web performance optimisation (WPO) to help evangelise the business benefits of having a faster website.

Whether you are new to WPO or are already well experienced, the websiteperformance.org.uk site has plenty of resources to help you and these will continue to grow over time.

Check out the site now and sign up.

Tuning a web site page load time from 8s to 2.5s in simple steps

Friday, 16 September 2011 13:21 |

Written by Mick McGuinness |

This 10 minute video which shows how I tuned the average page load times for a web site from 8 seconds - which as an average is very slow and would be costing the company money by reducing the number of visitors, page views and conversions that the site - down to 2.5 seconds which is pretty fast. See how that compares to the Hitwise 100 (top 100 UK ecommerce sites).

The video showcases our 4D solutions, WebTuna to measure end user expereience, Aptimize for frontend web content optimization, AppDynamics for backend application performance and DBTuna for the database performamce optimization.

SafePeak in-memory caching improves performance

Friday, 02 September 2011 13:01 |

Written by Mick McGuinness |

AP’s top technical whizz, Mick McGuinness, outlines the benefits of using SafePeak, a caching tool that sits between the SQL server and applications technology. SafePeak improves performance by reading the in-memory cache, meaning that read requests to the SQL server are minimised and read requests are fulfilled faster.

No changes are necessary to the application, whether it’s SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, third party software or even your own-developed applications. The SafePeak server is installed – simply supply IP address and port number – and instantly 80% to 90% of requests are fulfilled from the memory cache without going to the SQL server.

Sneak peak of DBTuna 2.3

Friday, 22 July 2011 13:59 |

Written by Ian McGuinness |

We are in the final stages of testing DBTuna 2.3 and looking good for a release sometime next week. Here are a few screenshots showing a sneak peak of the new UI.

The charts are now zoomable and have annotations to show when alerts occured or when database parameters were changed.

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