HttpWatch
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Being the total acceleration junkie that I am the first time a new site is launched or recommended to me the first thing I do is take a look at the performance of it. So when I heard about Bing the first thing I did was fire up HttpWatch and take a look at the site. To make things a little more interesting I decided to compare the results to Google, I used the classic home page and not my customized iGoogle home page. Tests were conducted from my home broadband connection in London, England. Each test was...
This week Google announced that Chrome is now going to support extensions and plug-ins. Early design documents and reference materials have been released and I'm looking forward to seeing what gets developed. I downloaded and installed Chrome shortly after it was released as I was interested in the performance enhancements available. I hate to admit that unfortunately I haven't used Chrome much primarily due to the lack of extensions - specifically one extension. The extension that I use more than any other is HttpWatch. Being able to view all the headers and cache settings is invaluable when troubleshooting and...
Thanks to my colleague Sam for helping me come up with an M word. I was going to talk about multiplexing but Lori beat me to it. So instead of multiplexing m is for Mozilla. Probably one of the most popular Mozilla projects is the Firefox browser. Firefox is the second most used browser according to recent statistics posted by NetApplications. I read an interesting post from the folks over at HttpWatch discussing the differences in the way IE and Firefox handle caching directives. The difference in the way browsers handle cache directives means that more consideration needs...
JavaScript has been a fixture in web applications for many years now and it can have a serious impact in the performance of a web page. First off JavaScript (js) is just text so these files can benefit significantly from compression. I've been shocked in the past to see a js files that were over 500K in size and not compressed. In older browsers there were issues related to the caching of compressed js files but these bugs do not exist with more current versions of the browser so there is nothing stopping you from compressing these files. If you...
HttpWatch and HttpFox are plug-ins for Internet Explorer and Firefox that provide detailed analysis of the HTTP requests and responses. HttpWatch 6.0 works with both Internet Explorer and Firefox while HttpFox is strictly for Firefox. The functionality provided in both tools is very similar and extremely valuable when understanding application performance. Lori has previously posted a review of HttpFox so I won't rehash what has already been said. The one key feature that HttpFox is currently missing at the moment is the ability to export or save the results. This has been accepted by the development team as...
