Archive for February, 2009

Apdex - An In Depth Analysis

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

I first learned of Apdex at CMG 2006 and led a pilot project within my company to understand how we might use it. I presented my experience at CMG 2007. At that conference, I ran into an acquaintance, Neil Gunther, who had begun working with Apdex and alternate visualization techniques.

Neil has now published one of the most comprehensive discussions I’ve seen on Apdex: The Apdex Index Revealed.

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AOL PageTest Updates

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

A little more than a year ago, AOL released PageTest to the open-source community. Since then, more than 35,000 tests have been run at webpagetest.org, and it has been downloaded more than 5,000 times from SourceForge.

Creator Pat Meenan has been busy adding some new features lately that provide even more performance information.

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