The concept of an application transaction (also called a business transaction or an end-user transaction) is at the heart of Application Performance Monitoring (APM).  A previous three-part article, The APM Primer (part one, part two, and part three), described the basics of APM.  The article now before you delves a little deeper into APM’s core [...]

Website Performance: Taxonomy of Tips in­tro­duced a clas­si­fi­ca­tion scheme to help us or­ga­nize the many per­form­ance tips found on the In­ter­net.  To­day’s ar­ti­cle de­scribes a few tips that re­late to the synchronicitycategory. Set Priority Levels Some languages allow pro­gram­m­ers to set CPU pri­o­ri­ty levels.  Down­load­ing Java­Script told us to down­load maybe-needed-later scripts af­ter ex­e­cut­ing needed-soon [...]

Like it or not, your end-users will judge your website.  If, in their judgment, it is perceived to be slow, that judgment will partly determine how often they return.  It will also affect their friends’ decisions insomuch as user experiences are shared.  That’s why monitoring the user experienceis so important.Now on to the next step.  [...]