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Free Web Performance Tools From Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, And IBM

      This post is a quick overview of free performance tools available from Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, and IBM. It also contains a pointers to related articles that go deeper regarding the best practices and how the tools can help Read More...

Posted 11 June 09 11:56 by alikl | 1 Comments   
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ASP.NET Performance Sin - Serving Images Dynamically (Or Another Reason To Love Fiddler)

Serving images dynamically may cause performance hit. Dynamically served images require more HTTP requests which violates Steve Souders' performance rule #1 - Make Fewer HTTP Requests . The latency is also caused by parallelism (or parallel downloading) Read More...

Posted 02 May 08 02:12 by alikl | 7 Comments   
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Free Performance Tool - Analyze IIS Logs Like A Pro With Funnel Web Analyzer

These free performance tools will save you time and money identifying performance bottlenecks. Your customers will thank you for building fast and responsive applications. Funnel Web Analyzer 5.0 for Windows Download the tool here. Analyzer gives insight Read More...

Posted 21 April 08 11:16 by alikl | 10 Comments   
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Performance Development Lifecycle (PDL) Session Materials

Yesterday I gave a talk about the subject during Performance Open House First off, thanks for attending my talk. The materials are published here . Enjoy. Read More...

Posted 11 March 08 10:16 by alikl | 2 Comments   
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Stress Test ASP.NET Web Application With Free WCAT Tool

Building ASP.NET web applications? Plan to serve thousands of users? Would you like to see how your application would behave [misbehave] under stress? Use simple-to-use and freely available WCAT tool to generate the load and get detailed report for expected Read More...

Posted 09 March 08 08:59 by alikl | 12 Comments   
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Performance Sin - Using Exceptions To Control Flow

Want to spot coding anti-patterns from performance perspective without actually looking in the code? One of the common performance coding anti-patterns I’ve noticed lately is using Exception Handling to control program flow. The anti-patterns Most Read More...

Posted 02 February 08 01:19 by alikl | 4 Comments   
Filed under Test Phase, Tools, Development Phase, Performance, Practices, Exception Handling

Performance Code Review Tool – Practices Checker

Care about performance? Do you write your code with performance in mind? Want little help to spot performance bottlenecks automatically? Practices Checker to the rescue. The goal of the tool is “Help you perform a manual code inspection by analyzing Read More...

Posted 21 January 08 09:37 by alikl | 8 Comments   
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Profiling JavaScript With Ajax View Tool: Spot Poor Performance Client Script In No Time

Ever wondered why your application unreasonably slow? You have it all - most powerful hardware, your database is tuned, SQL queries are optimized, network is barely utilized, and .Net code is super efficient. So why on earth response time is so slow? Read More...

Posted 17 January 08 04:19 by alikl | 3 Comments   
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Identify ASP.NET, Web Services, And WCF Performance Issues By Examining IIS Logs

Simple examination of IIS logs can reveal potential performance issues related to ASP.NET web applications, ASP.NET web services, and IIS hosted WCF services. Fast, easy, cheap. These are the simple steps I take: Time-Taken & W3C Logs: Turn it on... Read More...

Posted 02 November 07 10:49 by alikl | 10 Comments   
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Performance Testing For The Masses

"FAST is cool, huh" - good friend of mine told me. No doubt. How do I identify the bottleneck with architecture like this? Is it Browser starving resources for client side JavaScript/AJAX heavy processing? Is it jumbo Http Responses (ViewState for example)? Read More...

Posted 28 March 07 06:16 by alikl | 10 Comments   
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