This is nothing new, but just in case you missed it, Yahoo! published a fairly detailed report about how to speed up your website response times : Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site.
Many of the tips are common sense, some are somehow unexpected, and some I didn’t know like the HTTP/1.1 header ETAG. Let’s see what that’s about.
If you need to simulate a load on an Apache server (or any web server actually), you can use Apache Bench, which is included in the standard Apache HTTPd distribution. This tool will launch connections to your webserver as instructed to simulate multiple users and will help you to tune your Apache settings.
You can find the synopsis at the Apache website. Most common options are :
Other options allow you to control precisely the request to send, proxy settings, user authentication, cookies and much more.
Question to readers : Which HTTP load tester do YOU use ? TIA for sharing !
ReviewMe aims at connecting advertisers and publishers (including bloggers) so that publishers will get paid to write reviews on their site about a product or a website.
As obvious as this is, it is designed so that bloggers will get money from the time they spend on their blogs and advertisers will get better quality advertisement. But if you are not interested by the financial aspect, you might still be interested in using ReviewMe to find the best blogs about the subjects you like.
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I accessed my “Google Personnalized Homepage” today morning only to discover that the page logo now displays iGoogle instead of the classic and usual Google… I was wondering what it was, as the logo is not clickable with a link to an explanation as I hoped it would be …
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Tan Tan Noodles’s wordpress reports plugin has just been updated as announced on the plugin’s homepage :
Bug Fixes: WordPress Reports (0.81) : tan tan noodles – msg free since 2005
A bug fix release for the WordPress Reports plugin is now available for download.
If you are using Wordpress+Google Analytics+FeedBurner then this plugin is a must : it will let you get the main reports of both statistics tools directly from you Wordpress admin interface. (more…)
