web performance and load testing

Maintaining web-based services at peak performance can be a full time activity, yet high-touch customer experience depends on it.  With web technologies continually advancing, staying abreast of current best practice is time consuming.  This evolving website aims to provide a repository of best practices, web performance information and common sense approaches for web performance practitioners.

Articles

In the Articles repository we are building a set of discussions covering best practices, experiences and insights into web performance and performance load testing.  Some of the latest articles are listed below.   

How Download Speed Can Affect Website Performance
How Download Speed Can Affect Website Performance
This article explains how download speed (bandwidth) can affect website performance across a network and on a browser or user agent.
What is Web Performance Engineering
What is Web Performance Engineering
Understanding how to speed up your website to improve customer experience is now a defined skill. Welcome to web performance engineering.
A Decade of Web Performance
A Decade of Web Performance
Using Web Performance to Maximize SEO
Using Web Performance to Maximize SEO
In the continual search for SEO benefits such as improved conversion rates, page views and search engine rankings, web performance optimization provides some invaluable extra ammunition.
The Performance Load Test Process
The Performance Load Test Process
Performance load testing is vital to verifying that business outcomes can be achieved for online services. This article discusses a repeatable best practice approach to achieving this.
Optimizing Optimizely Part 2 Optimizing for Performance
Optimizing Optimizely Part 2 Optimizing for Performance
In Part 2 we continue our investigation on how to improve web performance of the client-side Optimizely Web digital experience platform. Building on the discussion in Part 1 on its impact on the critical render path in this article we look at other key influences on web performance.