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Web Performance Metrics
Book Chapters
- Patrick Killelea (2002) "Chapter 4: Performance of Web Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition", at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webpt2/chapter/ch04.html Second Edition, Published by 'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Online Catalogues
This is the Chapter talks about parameters for monitoring and then authors show how to monitor those parameters with free software from http://patrick.net/, without installing anything on production machines.
Conference Proceedings
- A. Iyengar, E. Nahum, A. Shaikh, and R. Tewar (2002) "Enhancing Web Performance", http://www.research.ibm.com/people/i/iyengar/wcc02.pdf Proc. of IFIP World Computer Congress (WCC '02), Communication Systems: The State of the Art, Invited paper Also published as IBM Research Report RC 22427
In author's own words ...."This paper provides an overview of techniques for improving Web performance. For improving server performance, multiple Web servers can be used in combination with efficient load balancing techniques. We also discuss how the choice of server architecture affects performance. We examine content distribution networks (CDN’s) and the routing techniques that they use. While Web performance can be improved using caching, a key problem with caching is consistency. We present different techniques for achieving varying forms of cache consistency."
Online Resources
- James Rubarth-Lay (1996) "Keeping the 400lb. Gorilla at Bay:Optimizing Web Performance", For LIS 385 T.6, "Electronic Distribution of Organizational Information", Spring 1996 at http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~jrubarth/gslis/CyberhornsS96/PAPER.html Published by University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Library and Information Science
This paper describes HTTP and Web server technology and surveys two broad strategies for keeping the use of HTTP from bringing the rest of the Internet to its knees. First, strategies for improving Web server performance are explored. Second, the HTTP protocol itself can be optimized.
- Mark Nottingham (1998) "Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters", Version 1.62 at http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/ Last updated on March 25, 2005
Good general and some technical information on web caching.