Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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Setting Cache Headers from JBoss
Having control over the HTTP response headers allows you to set cache related headers in responses for various content you’d like cached on the browser (or an intermediary proxy). I created the ATG Cache Control DAS pipeline Servlet a year ago, but when you’re using JBoss you need another solution. Since the DAF pipeline is…
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Improving JSP Serving Time for an ATG Application
Improving the performance of the JSPs that serve your HTML pages is the first step in improving the overall site performance. The user’s browser can not start rendering the page or requesting the secondary media. Also the faster the page request is completed, the sooner you have a thread free to handle the next request.…
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Why Is User Experience Performance So Important?
In my ATG Performance Tuning post I mentioned that how a user perceives the site performance impacts their behavior on the site, and that a fast site leads to more purchases/traffic/etc… Here are some numbers to back that up: Amazon found that a 100ms increase in page response time led to a 1% DROP in…
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Note to retailers
When it’s Christmas time, please do NOT put large labels on the outside of the UPS shipping boxes proclaiming what the contents of the box are in big letters. It ruins the surprise.
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Snow
This has been an amazing weekend weather-wise. Not just here, but also in Seattle. Seattle ended up getting more snow in 24 hours than it had received for the entire 6 years I lived there. Then they had 90+ mph winds last night. Crazy. Here in Chelmsford we got close to a foot of snow…
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ATG User Experience Performance Tuning
How to improve the page load time and rendering time for your ATG application! How your users and customers perceive the speed of your site is critical. The faster and more responsive your site appears to them the better experience they have and the more likely they are to make a purchase. There are plenty…
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