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Rob Cherny
Web Site Performance Software
October 6th, 2009
Application Development, Visual Design, Web Content Management, Web Development
At NavigationArts, the client-side development team focuses heavily on optimizing the performance of Web pages and how fast they load. Some of the leading research in the area is from the likes of Yahoo! and their front-end engineering team.
For customers that really need to meet performance related goals in short order, even in the presence of complex application environments such as SharePoint, a third party company has sprung up with services designed to help optimize their Web sites’ and Web applications performance metrics. The techniques they use are directly tied to Yahoo!’s and other recent research in the area.
The company is called Aptimize, and they are selling software services which apply performance enhancements. There are offerings for Linux, ASP.NET, SharePoint, and more.
This is not an endorsement, as I couldn’t even tell you the quality of the services they offer at this point. I just thought it was an interesting development as people are really starting to take note of the benefits of some of these optimization techniques. So much so that an entire business could be modeled around it.
At any rate, might be worth taking a look at.
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Tags: performance
2 Responses 
The problem with ancillary businesses like this is that once the product that they support improves, they’re pretty much out of business…. all of these technologies (Linux, ASP.NET, etc.) should ‘clean themselves up at compile time’, but it takes other businesses like this to push them into realizing that there’s a tangible incentive for them to improve.
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