Comments on: Why can’t we find a way to speed up web apps? http://josh.ev9.org/weblog/archives/382 Interaction Design, User Experience, and the World at Large Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:26:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: scott http://josh.ev9.org/weblog/archives/382/comment-page-1#comment-420 scott Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:53:32 +0000 http://josh.ev9.org/weblog/archives/382#comment-420 Web apps really can only go as fast as the web can carry them. You still have to pull all the data (text + images as is the case with wikiepdia) over the WAN, whether that's across the country or across the world. You could always petition Wikipedia to mirror their site from somewhere closer to you. {;o) Some webified applications (I'm referring to those crazy enterprise type apps like SAP or Oracle CRM type things) are extermely chatty, so they suck even more because they have to make that round trip so many more times. HTTP has some built in compression, which helps a bit. Caching is anothero ption. Caching objects and keeping the cache close to you is a great way to speed things up, however, it's static and only works well if everyone near you goes to the same website over and over. Interestingly enough, my company has several solutions to these problems...haha Web apps really can only go as fast as the web can carry them. You still have to pull all the data (text + images as is the case with wikiepdia) over the WAN, whether that’s across the country or across the world. You could always petition Wikipedia to mirror their site from somewhere closer to you. {;o)

Some webified applications (I’m referring to those crazy enterprise type apps like SAP or Oracle CRM type things) are extermely chatty, so they suck even more because they have to make that round trip so many more times.

HTTP has some built in compression, which helps a bit.

Caching is anothero ption. Caching objects and keeping the cache close to you is a great way to speed things up, however, it’s static and only works well if everyone near you goes to the same website over and over.

Interestingly enough, my company has several solutions to these problems…haha

]]> By: Josh Graham http://josh.ev9.org/weblog/archives/382/comment-page-1#comment-419 Josh Graham Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:41:28 +0000 http://josh.ev9.org/weblog/archives/382#comment-419 d'oh. <span type="attention" version="2.0">upgrade now!</span> ;-) d’oh.

<span type=”attention” version=”2.0″>upgrade now!</span> ;-)

]]> By: Josh Graham http://josh.ev9.org/weblog/archives/382/comment-page-1#comment-418 Josh Graham Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:40:45 +0000 http://josh.ev9.org/weblog/archives/382#comment-418 upgrade now! ;-) upgrade now! ;-)

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