Web Performance Matters

Most hosted Web Analytics vendors charge you according to page views -- not unreasonable since each view is a call to their server and a new record in their database. But what happens when Ajax and other rich applications eliminate the notion of a "page"?

That's from Web 2.0 Changes Web Analytics Pricing Models, a recent post by Phil Kemelor in CMP's Intelligent Enterprise Weblog. Describing how he sees Web Analytics (WA) vendors adapting to Web 2.0, Phil continues ...

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Performance Management (SLM) Challenges for Web 2.0, Ajax, and Rich Internet Applications (RIA's)

Last week, TechTarget published an article by Patrick Lightbody about the performance of Web 2.0 applications. The article's technical core -- which I review below -- is a useful checklist of ten recommendations for developing and testing Web 2.0 applications with performance in mind.

For the full article, see Ten ways to improve testing, performance of Web 2.0 applications.

Because I believe in systematic performance engineering, I am always pleased when writers advocate proactive approaches to application performance. It's the only rational way to ensure acceptable performance in production applications. So it's too bad that Patrick feels the need to justify his good advice by surrounding it with an introduction and conclusion that suffers from all the worst features of Web 2.0 coverage. A few half-truths are buried in an amalgam of excessive hype, false claims, meaningless analysis, and an optimism that underestimates the real technical challenges.

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