Collected thoughts about software and site performance ...
Web performance matters. Responsive sites can make the online experience effective, even enjoyable. A slow site can be unusable. This site is about online performance, how to achieve and maintain it, its impact on user experience, and ultimately on site effectiveness.
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Keeping it on the Road
Web hosting, IT operations, and service level management
Yesterday (in my post about the weather) I introduced the subjects of time series and probability. Today I want to show how they apply to one aspect of performance management -- working with service availability data, which you are probably collecting from several different measurement tools.
Suppose you need to improve the availability of a critical e-business application ...
The Web Site Availability Model
I am a mathematician at heart, and all mathematical conclusions are derived by deductive reasoning from a set of an initial set of assumptions (postulates or axioms). So it is natural for me to want to establish a clear foundation on which to build any discussion of performance matters.

