Stephen Reese

Benchmarking Websites with ab and tsung

Everyone enjoys responsive websites and being that I host a few, look for ways to improve their speed. Previously, I was interested in, HTTP, HTTPS, and HTTP/WAF, I now primarily focus on HTTPS. Browsers and third-party online services may be used in order to benchmark page performance but began …

Graphing Namebench Spreadsheet Data with R

In the previous post, I described the process of benchmarking domain name servers for a website domain with a modified version of Namebench. Namebench generates graphs using the Google chart API. This left me wanting a little more therefore decided to explore the data using the R Project. This post …

Benchmarking Website Domain Name Servers

This post evaluates a few methods to benchmark name servers that provide resolution of your websites domain name to its respective IP address. While DNS resolution for you domain is a small piece of the process for a user to retrieve a page, it is still important to provide the …