Best Practices to Optimize Web 2.0 Performance (DynaTrace)

The webinar is about web2.0 optimization from DynaTrace.

DynaTrace Ajax Edition
First, DynaTrace provides a very good tool "DynaTrace Ajax Edition" for Web performance testing and profiling. The dynaTrace Ajax Edition 3 makes building lightning fast Web 2.0 applications easy. Speed page load times, optimize rendering, tune DOM execution, and compare to competition. Even integrate with Selenium, Watir or QTP to begin automating your performance tests. It's free, it's easy and it's now for both Firefox and IE.

KPI (Key performance indicators)
First Request
First Impression
onLoad Time
Fully Loaded
On Server
On Client
Interactive
DNS
Connect
Transfer
Wait
Network
Javascript
Rendering
Total Size
# of request
# of XHR(Ajax)

Problems:
#1 Problem - Overloaded web sites
    Expensive redirecvt
#2 Javascript Execution
    Script block execution
    Expensive lookup by ClassName getElementsByClassName()
#3 Old javascript libraries
#4 Caching
#5 Slow External Content (Ads, banners, Social network plugins)

Psychological response time:
Page load time < 4s for first time vistors
               < 2s for revisisting users

Proactive Performance Optimization:

• Leverage Browser Caching
• Reduce Network Roundtrips
• Optimize Javascript
• Optimize DOM Manipulations
• Analyze external Content
• Optimize Ajax Usage
• Analyze Rendering
• Test CROSS Browser

After DynaTrace introduced best practices to Web2.0 performance optimization, GSI Commerce (DynaTrace customer) introduced their experience using DynaTrace. I will use the screen snapshots to explain their performance practices.

Figure 1: Performance Testing

Figure 2: Using DynaTrace

Figure 3: Why using DynaTrace

Figure 4: Automate

Figure 5: Tips and Tricks

Figure 6: Next Step using DynaTrace

Figure 7: Roundup