Why Google and IBM are Pushing for Web Protocol Changes

This week, Google announced their SPDY project - this is a proposed web protocol that promises significant speed improvements over the existing HTTP protocol.  Even though it will take several years before we'll see the benefits of this initiative, it sends a clear signal about Google's intentions.  Interestingly these are echoed by IBM. In June this year, IBM made a submission to the Internet Engineering Task Force with a similar enhancement for speeding up web pages. Both Google and IBM recognize we can make better performance improvemen ts to the world wide web with software changes, than by installing more cables.   

Why is this important to Google and IBM?  With a faster web infrastructure, Google's services can take the net step forward - with faster pages the ad serving and analytics infrastructure have time to perform several interactions.  For example: today's advertisement networks only perform very limited customizations based on the page content. Anything more takes too much time. With a faster web infrastructure, ads can be tailored base on page content, site analytics and visitor profile.   For IBM, it's about the cloud. As the major enterprise providers create their cloud platforms for businesses, they are facing the limitations of the current infrastructure - off premise computing is often considerably slower than on-premise due to network latency and the chattiness of the existing protocols.

For IBM and Google, the new protocols signify the importance of fixing the performance bottlenecks in the world wide web to help fuel the next generation of internet commerce.

Top 10 Secrets for Speeding Up SharePoint Websites

Back by popular demand. The Webcast that everyone is talking about!! Information that you can use today to speed up your websites! 

On the web, asking your customers to wait is like asking them to leave. Making your SharePoint website or intranet fast is important, and easy to do. We step through the top ten techniques every SharePoint development team should apply to websites and intranets, and show you the measurements for exactly the improvement each technique makes. We also introduce the ROI framework that helps you get cost approval for performance improvements, and look at real world results from other SharePoint performance improvements. Derek Watson will also talk about how he worked with Microsoft to double the speed of a SharePoint.Microsoft.com site. 

Derek Watson is the CTO for Aptimize Software, a company that specializes in improving SharePoint website and intranet performance. 
Title: Top 10 Secrets for Speeding up SharePoint Websites 
Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009 
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PST Reserve your Webinar seat now at: www1.gotomeeting.com/register/498997712

You can test your Web Speed now!

You can test your public website right now by putting in a URL and your email address. Aptimize will email you the results in a PDF document. After your click on the link and put in your Website URL and email address, you will receive an email with a PDF attached that will have some of the following information below. 



YSlow grades web pages based on one of three predefined rulesets or a user-defined ruleset. It offers suggestions for improving the page's performance, summarizes the page's components and displays statistics about the page. 

Tools to Test your Website Speed

www.webpagetest.org - Pagetest is an open source tool for measuring and analyzing web page performance right from your web browser. AOL developed Pagetest internally to automate load time measurement of its many websites, and it has evolved into a powerful tool for web developers and software engineers in testing their web pages and getting instant feedback. The tool is free and comes in a web version, www.webpagetest.org or a PC version.

www.fiddler2.com - Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP(S) traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler includes a powerful event-based scripting subsystem, and can be extended using any .NET language.  Fiddler is freeware and can debug traffic from virtually any application, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and thousands more.

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