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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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RIA White Paper and Wikipedia

Illustration: RIA white paper

Blogging has taken a backseat to other activities for a couple of months, so I have some Performance Matters to report.

RIA white paper

Following publication of the seventh in my earlier series of posts about managing Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), I reworked most of that material into a single paper.

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Insights from Interop 2006

Illustration: Interop 2006

In my last post I promised that if I get any new insights worth sharing this week while I'm at Interop 2006, I'll write about them. Well, here's the first installment, which consists of just three items. I'm supposed to be at the Keynote booth on the show floor soon, so this will be short, because it's quite a hike to get there.

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Alistair Croll on Ajax

Illustration: Alistair Croll

Because of my particular interest in software performance optimization and related performance management topics, I often search the Web to see what people are writing about performance. And even though there are always new things to find, it seems to be getting harder to locate them.

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