28Jul 10
We are very proud to win the New Zealand Internet Industry award for Internet Innovator.
Ed Robinson, CEO, accepted the Award on behalf of Aptimize "We are delighted and honoured to be recognized by the Internet community for our contribution to the positive impact the internet has to our economy and society. Our vision is to make the web faster for everyone and we are rapidly executing on that vision as we continue to speed-up some of the biggest websites in the world”.
The Internet Industry Awards recognize excellence for using the Internet as an enabling platform for business, education and society. We had dinner and a great conversation with both the Honourable Steven Joyce, Minister of Communications and Technology and Peter Dengate Thrush, Chairman of the board of ICAAN. Thanks to the judges, Internet NZ and the Liz Dengate Thrush Foundation for a great night.
About:
The Internet Industry Awards are the only Awards in New Zealand that are purely focused on the Internet as an enabling platform for business, education and society
enhancing organisations. To find out more visit www.internetindustryawards.co.nz
14Jul 10
A faster SharePoint website increases revenue, decreases costs, improves user experience and productivity, drives more traffic to your site.
Having the fastest quad core server, gigabytes of memory and solid state disks, does not guarantee fast access to websites from the user’s perspective - So why are SharePoint and other websites so slow?
In this webinar we will walk through:
- What makes web pages slow to load
- Free performance measurement tools
- How to improve your performance results instantly
We will also show you how the Aptimize SharePoint Accelerator improves performance for SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 based websites and intranets.
Date: Thursday, July 29, 2010
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
11Jul 10
Congratulations to Velocity co-chairs Steve Souders, Jessie Robbins, May, Yvonne and the rest of the team at O’Reilly.
This year’s Velocity web performance and operations conference was the most successful yet – and it’s great to see the continued enthusiasm, innovation and growth within the industry.
For those of you who didn’t make the conference, or like us were too busy in the exhibition hall, you can see the session videos here.
My favorite – John Rauser from Amazon on Creating Cultural Change
17Jun 10
This week we'll be exhibiting at the Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference, June 22-24 in sunny Santa Clara, CA.
We always look forward to going to Velocity because we get to be surrounded by people passionate about web performance and faster websites; we get to catch up with customers, meet new ones, exchange ideas, and generally get to be absorbed in what we love - fast websites.
We'll be at Booth 300, here's who you can expect to see:
Ed Robinson, CEO. Ed can answer almost any question on web performance, and has the vision that no one should have to wait for any website to load. Our company is dedicated to delighting customers with faster websites and intranets, this is all we do.
Ed fronts our videos, the latest explains the effect of distance on page load times.
Aaron Bellingham, Business Manager. Aaron is the first point of contact for getting a faster website. Aaron coordinates business and technical information you need, and sets up trials and production. Often we can speed up your website on the same day you contact us. The only thing faster than our website accelerator products is Aptimize’s service.
Aaron also works closely with our Partners so if you're interested in becoming one track Aaron down for a chat at Booth 300.
Aaron 'Beaker' Sinclair, Software Development Engineer (Linux). Beaker is Aptimize’s lead developer for Aptimize’s Website Accelerator for Linux, and architected some of Aptimize’s advanced techniques for CSS optimization. Beaker loves talking about the underlying technologies we use, so track him down at Booth 300.
8Jun 10
Just as the performance of e-commerce web sites is critical to private sector businesses, web site performance is crucial to the proper functioning of school educational web sites.
With this in mind, Research Machines (RM), one of the largest education ICT providers, has deployed Aptimize's Website Accelerator (WAX) to provide faster content to users regardless of their network speed or desktop hardware.
Teachers use RM's platform to deliver online content to pupils during lessons, and pupils use the platform to submit homework or collaborate with other pupils. In addition, parents access the portal to look at the attainment levels, attendance and behaviour of their children at school. The platform is based on Microsoft's SharePoint 2007 collaboration and content management platform. Brian Gibson, technical architect for the RM platform, said: "RM's Learning Platform serves a demanding audience, and optimising response times is important for avoiding frustration or even disturbance in the classroom. "RM has an account for every parent, teacher and school in Scotland. It also has platforms serving the rest of the UK, which hosts 2.2 million user accounts. Gibson explained that the company also has platforms in Australia and is building one in the US.
Why roll out Aptimize?
The scenario confronting RM was different from that of normal service providers. "With a school there will be two or three classrooms with, say, 30 PCs connecting to the portal all at the same time, each of them looking at the same web site and pulling down some very rich media content," said Gibson. Where it is running off a single portal, that can lead to the system reaching a saturation point. "We're trying to improve the experience for schools. We can't use the excuse that the learning platform doesn't perform well enough because a school's internet connection is slow, "explained Gibson. Aptimize was used by RM to dramatically reduce the number of connections a browser has to make to get its content. "For example, if one web page has to make, say, 50 connections [to its source] to deliver the content, this is reduced to 23 with Aptimize, so there's less time spent on that 'ropey' internet connection," said Gibson. "Aptimize reduced even our slowest pages from load times of seven seconds to just over two."
Deploying Aptimize
Gibson said that Aptimize caught his eye with the work it had done with Microsoft's SharePoint.Microsoft.com site. The company said that Aptimize's WAX system was relatively straightforward and that the system was implemented by just two people from the company using out-of-the-box instructions. It did not require developer skills.
Management and monitoring
RM releases fairly large updates to its platform once a quarter, meaning that every time the company releases an update it has to ensure that Aptimize deploys properly and does not break the portal. The company uses a system called Keynote to monitor the performance of its platforms by checking web pages from different DSL locations. "This gives a nice graph showing how fast the pages are running. We wanted to improve on our slowest pages [which took about seven seconds]. Aptimize knocked that down to 2.5 seconds and we were able to monitor this," said Gibson. RM's future plans include using Aptimize to expand into new territories such as Australia and the US, as well on other parts of RM's online infrastructure including its management information systems.
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