whats your windows experience index ?

whats your windows vista 7 or 8 experience index ?

• windows.microsoft.com/nb-no/windows-vista/windows-experience-index-understand-and-improve-your-computers-performance-in-windows-vista
  
• forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=176910
• www.tweakgeek.info/windows-8-experience-index/
• www.overclock.net/t/596533/windows-7-performance-score-thread/1400

flickr.com/groups/windows-experience-index/

Free of charge CDN

cloudflare.com/ are offering a free of charge CDN (cloudflare.com/plans) and reverse proxy web cache for web sites

• cloudflare.com/features-cdn.html
• cloudflare.com/features-optimizer
• cloudflare.com/features-security
• cloudflare.com/network-map.html

theres even a CloudFlare plugin for WordPress

• wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cloudflare

however be sure to take note of CloudFlare’s T&Cs:

CloudFlare may:

• Rewrite content in order to hide sensitive information from select visitors to your site.
• Add cookies to your domain to track visitors, such as those who have successfully passed a CAPTCHA.
• Add tracking codes or affiliate codes to links that do not previously have tracking or affiliate codes.
• Add script to your pages to, for example, add services or perform additional performance tracking.
• Intercept requests determined to be threats and present them with a block page.
• Other changes to increase performance or security of your website.

CDN References

• developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html
• wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network

TheCloud Wi-Fi SpeedTest

I was using my android on my local McDs TheCloud Wi-Fi hotspot this morning and decided to do a couple of SpeedTests and I was very impressed to see 5M download speed – thats the same as i get on my cable at home !

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High Performance Web Sites

Steve Souders

• http://stevesouders.com/examples/rules.php

Developer Yahoo

• http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/
• http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html

YUI Blog

• http://yuiblog.com/blog/category/performance
• http://yuiblog.com/blog/2008/07/22/non-blocking-scripts/
• http://yuiblog.com/blog/2008/07/21/performance-research-part-6/

Firefox AddOn

• http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

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Goodbye Flock 1.1 (again !)

I've been giving you (flock 1.1) a chance every six months for the last few years and this latest time you did last a record 24 hours BUT although you work fine on my work Dual Core 2G work desktop my notebook at home is a lowly Pentium 1G which hates running continuously at between 88% – 99% CPU so its back to trusty old firefox i'm afraid.

I might take another look in another six months time ? (When you @ 1.4 ?)

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ApacheBench HTTP server benchmarking tool & other Apache tools

Did you know that if you are running Apache you already have a HTTP benchmarking tool called ApacheBench aka ab !

Theres a list of all the tools you get with Apache @ http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/ including logresolve which is a post-processing program to resolve IP-addresses in Apache's access logfiles !

Finally there a great list of Open Source performance testing tools @ http://www.opensourcetesting.org/performance.php

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