Performance

Available For Consulting

Ultra-premium consulting available at $1,000/hour with strict limits: prove 20%+ performance gains on your eCommerce site to justify the investment.

rsync is MUCH faster than scp

Benchmark test reveals rsync outpaces scp by 2-10x on file transfers - practical performance comparison for deployment workflows.

Performance Linux

Apache Web Performance

Apache Performance presentation at Boston Web Performance Meetup covers optimization techniques for web servers.

JBoss Performance Tuning and MasterTheBoss

JBoss Performance Tuning book offers data-driven insights for optimizing application deployments.

JBoss Performance

ATG Newsletter Went Out

Site speed impacts Google rankings now - here's why it matters and how Spark::red's hosting expertise tuned every layer.

ATG SEO

3 min

Zencoder Video Encoding

Video encoding and streaming trends show how bandwidth growth, mobile, and social are reshaping online media.

3 min

Google Speed!

Google's speed optimization guidelines emphasize smaller code size, but avoid over-optimizing CSS at the cost of maintainability.

JavaScript Speeds

IE 7's JavaScript engine runs 10x slower than Safari 4, making it painful for AJAX-heavy interfaces.

JavaScript Performance

Smush.it Shrinks Your Images

Smush.it automatically optimizes your images without Photoshop tweaking - compress files and boost web performance instantly.

Performance Tools

Additional CDN Information

CDNs boost end-user performance 20-25% while slashing server load - geographic distribution wins.

3 min

Improving ATG Performance With a CDN

Content delivery networks serve static assets faster from servers near users, doubling perceived performance.

Improving Secondary Asset Loading Time for an ATG Application

Images and scripts kill load time - reduce file count, leverage caching, and watch metrics plummet.

Setting Cache Headers from JBoss

Cache HTTP headers from JBoss using servlet filters - control what browsers keep and for how long.

JBoss Performance

8 min

Improving JSP Serving Time for an ATG Application

JSPs are bottlenecks; cache content sections to cut generation time, free up threads faster.

Why Is User Experience Performance So Important?

100ms slower = 1% sales drop (Amazon). Half-second delays tank Google traffic 20% - speed is revenue.

ATG User Experience Performance Tuning

Page load speed directly impacts user behavior - ATG apps need tuning across HTML, DOM, and assets.

ATG Performance Tuning

ATG performance isn't magic. Proven strategies cut costs and lift conversions on complex e-commerce apps.

Apache mod_deflate and mod_cache issues

mod_deflate + mod_cache = cache explosion. Compression multiplies files - separate or carefully manage.

10MinuteMail Performance Improvement

10MinuteMail's mail delivery just got much faster - no more junk hammering the server.