Is Your Website Part of the Web 2.SLOW?

November 13, 2006; 03:24 AM

The concept of "Web 2.0" captured the imagination of web developers worldwide less than two years ago. But the promise of better user experiences and customer-centric content is regularly silenced by downtime and plagued by poor performance.

Website monitoring service Wormly.com has published a two-part report examining the factors leading to slow website performance - in terms of both client and server-side technologies.

As part of the analysis, a study of Web 2.0 market leader digg.com was undertaken, with results that many will find surprising.

The report can be read online at:
http://www.wormly.com/help/case-studies/the-web-2.slow

Commenting on Monday, Wormly.com co-founder Julian Szemere said:

"Servers have never offered so much power so affordably, and the software that underpins web applications has matured and is generally very reliable. There's really no excuse for slow websites or downtime of any sort.

"We set out to uncover precisely what the problem areas are, and identify simple solutions that can be applied to any website to improve its performance and availability.

"You don't need to invest in more hardware or purchase additional software - just apply some sensible rules to your site development and web server operation."

Part one of the report covers the top mistakes made by web developers leading to poor website performance, including: JavaScript & CSS bottlenecks, the impact of latency on HTTP, resource caching strategies, server-side execution speed, and performance under peak loads.

Part two of the report covers key factors that increase the risk of website failures, including: Software misconfiguration, hardware failures and data center network reliability.

The full report can be read online at:
http://www.wormly.com/help/case-studies/the-web-2.slow

About Wormly
Wormly offers performance and availability monitoring of web servers with a crucial difference - they help users find out why their websites experience downtime so problems can be addressed at the source. Monitoring is available free of charge for up to five servers.

The Wormly availability monitoring network continually monitors your web site infrastructure, and alerts subscribers if a failure is detected. By immediately knowing when a problem has occurred, they can take action quickly to minimize downtime.

Wormly operates a global monitoring system with nodes in the USA, Europe and Asia / Pacific. This diversity ensures that Wormly is a reliable, scalable, and fault tolerant website monitoring service.

Visit Wormly online at:
http://www.wormly.com/