We’re #3
Posted May 12th, 2006 by Greg
The good news is that a couple of months ago our blog search was added to GrabPERF, a blog performance monitoring site. We are included amongst some industry titans, including Mozilla, Wordpress, Google, CNN, Digg, Technorati, and more.
The bad news is that according to their speed metrics, we currently rank as the third slowest of the sites that they monitor. The short term goal is to get any of the BOTW searches out of the red, and into the yellow. If you notice the actual times they aren’t too shabby. The two+ word search is the one that is sending us into the red zone with a 3.5961 second average speed on searches. Compared to a search on Google, who provides an impressive time of less than 1/3 of a second, we are far behind. However, if you compare us to a matching query on Technorati, with a time of 2.5213 seconds, and we are not too far off the mark.
Our one word search shaves more than a second off the total time, clocking in at 2.1754 seconds. This time actually beats the times for the same search set by both Technorati and IceRocket, who time in at 2.1794 and 2.4597 seconds respectively.
So this puts us on the map, and gives us some performance goals to work towards. Quite frankly, I am more concerned with the quality of the results provided. Our search product is only as good as the sites that we have listed in the blog directory. What does a fraction of a second matter if the quality of the product is less than excellent? Going forward we will maintain our focus on adding quality blogs to the BOTW Blog Directory, while continuing to improve on the technology behind the scenes.
I am proud to be included on the list, even bringing up the rear. Props to BOTW CTO, David Frank, and all technology hands involved with the development. I look forward to seeing what we can do in the months to come.
Note: all times and rankings are as of the time of this writing. I know that they are bound to fluctuate, but for this moment in time, all of the above stats are correct.
May 18th, 2006 at 7:22 am
Ok, there is no way you guys are slower then Technorati. That site is the MOLASSES of the blog search world. Whoever clocked them obviously hit them at some weird time when they weren’t the slowest thing on earth.
And I think results are AS important as time… though time is important.
Good luck guys!
May 18th, 2006 at 7:22 am
Feel free to edit my comment so it looks like I’ve had my coffee and can actually spell.
May 18th, 2006 at 12:07 pm
Agreed time is important, but relevancy and quality of results are much more important. We are working hard on improving the quality of both.