Posts tagged 'performance'

A simple servlet filter for Java performance logging

There are plenty of fancy tools for performance testing Java web applications but in addition to thorough load and volume testing before an application goes live, sometimes it’s useful just to leave simple perfomance monitoring running full time in a production environment. Monitoring the time the server takes to execute requests on your site can [...]

Category: programming

Browser javascript speed comparison – IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera

I did some work recently on an interactive mapping interface which included optimising some processor-intensive Javascript for increased performance. Along the way I was surprised to learn just how different the Javascript performance was of various current-generation browsers. I was expecting some difference, and definitely expected older browsers to be slower but the speed difference [...]

Category: web development