http://www.ajaxperformance.com/2006/10/28/what-is-a-page-part-2/ A blog by Ryan Breen of Gomez Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:51:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.ajaxperformance.com/2006/10/28/what-is-a-page-part-2/#comment-46 Ajax Performance » What is a page? Part 3 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:33:49 +0000 http://www.ajaxperformance.com/?p=18#comment-46 [...] Active measurement of web application performance involves simulating a real end user hitting a series of pages of the application and performing some action to move from one step to the next. An example transaction may start with a user loading up www.ebay.com, searching for ‘Beanie Babies’, and clicking the first result of the Beanie Baby search. That transaction would be 3 steps — home page, search results, and listing for the first search item. Organizations who perform this type of testing on their production applications have developed an understanding for how long each step should take and use this expectation to benchmark their product over time. This is the page-by-page model I discussed in Part 2. [...] [...] Active measurement of web application performance involves simulating a real end user hitting a series of pages of the application and performing some action to move from one step to the next. An example transaction may start with a user loading up http://www.ebay.com, searching for ‘Beanie Babies’, and clicking the first result of the Beanie Baby search. That transaction would be 3 steps — home page, search results, and listing for the first search item. Organizations who perform this type of testing on their production applications have developed an understanding for how long each step should take and use this expectation to benchmark their product over time. This is the page-by-page model I discussed in Part 2. [...]

]]> http://www.ajaxperformance.com/2006/10/28/what-is-a-page-part-2/#comment-44 Ajax Performance » Oops, make that 4 seconds Sun, 12 Nov 2006 21:24:41 +0000 http://www.ajaxperformance.com/?p=18#comment-44 [...] Looks like my algorithm for calculating user-acceptable latency needs to be updated. Akamai says it’s now 4 seconds, at least for retail sites. [...] [...] Looks like my algorithm for calculating user-acceptable latency needs to be updated. Akamai says it’s now 4 seconds, at least for retail sites. [...]

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