http://community.active.com/blogs/productdev Miscellaneous Rants from the people who develop active.com Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:11:57 GMT Jive SBS 4.5.5.2 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2010-03-03T19:11:57Z http://community.active.com/blogs/productdev/2010/03/03/activecom-now-served-through-akamai <!-- [DocumentBodyStart:ee4ff56e-d2c8-4b5f-8b4c-de5b10d94408] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>At 1:30 PM PST on 2 March, 2010 we flipped the switch and started serving www.active.com through Akamai.&#160; We then watched our average load time and bandwidth consumption stats decrease as the DNS change propogated across the world.&#160; The end result has been significant.&#160; Below are just some of the improvements we've noticed.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p><strong><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.active.com/">Active.com</a> homepage load time reduced from 6 seconds to less than 1 second</strong></p><p><a href="http://community.active.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/38-17180-13005/performance-active.com-home.gif"><img alt="performance-active.com-home.gif" class="jive-image-thumbnail jive-image" height="180" onclick="" src="http://community.active.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/38-17180-13005/450-180/performance-active.com-home.gif" width="450"/></a></p><p><strong><a class="jive-link-anchor-small">Community</a> homepage load time reduced to an average of 2 seconds</strong></p><p><a href="http://community.active.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/38-17180-13006/performance-community-home.gif"><img alt="performance-community-home.gif" class="jive-image-thumbnail jive-image" height="177" onclick="" src="http://community.active.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/38-17180-13006/450-177/performance-community-home.gif" width="450"/></a></p><p><strong>Datacenter bandwidth consumption reduced by at least 30%</strong></p><p><a href="http://community.active.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/38-17180-13007/mbits-per-second.gif"><img alt="mbits-per-second.gif" class="jive-image-thumbnail jive-image" height="129" onclick="" src="http://community.active.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/38-17180-13007/450-129/mbits-per-second.gif" width="450"/></a></p><p><strong>Concurrent sessions on our webservers reduced by 45%</strong></p><p><a href="http://community.active.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/38-17180-13008/concurrent-sessions.gif"><img alt="concurrent-sessions.gif" class="jive-image-thumbnail jive-image" height="127" onclick="" src="http://community.active.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/38-17180-13008/450-127/concurrent-sessions.gif" width="450"/></a></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>There's still room for improvement with our load time averages.&#160; Apache Bench tests show HTML-only load times for the active.com homepage to be under 100 milliseconds.&#160; The program that generated the chart above also downloads CSS, Javascript and 3rd party collateral.&#160; Regardless, we're excited about this change.</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:ee4ff56e-d2c8-4b5f-8b4c-de5b10d94408] --> active.com speed improvements akamai Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:11:57 GMT guest http://community.active.com/blogs/productdev/2010/03/03/activecom-now-served-through-akamai 2010-03-03T19:11:57Z 3 years, 2 months ago 1 0 http://community.active.com/blogs/productdev/comment/activecom-now-served-through-akamai http://community.active.com/blogs/productdev/feeds/comments?blogPost=17180