Announcing KITE for Early Adopters at O'Reilly Velocity Conference

I'm very excited about being at the O'Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference in Burlingame, CA, on June 23-24. For those reading this post, I assume you are interested in the online experience and its performance.   Just like me I'm sure you are excited that we now have a dedicated O'Reilly conference addressing the topic of Web Performance and Online Operations. 

At Velocity, I will be demonstrating, along with my colleague Abelardo Gonzalez, Keynote's Internet Test Environment (KITE) right after the opening session, on Monday, June 23, at 9:30 a.m. in the Plenary Sessions, Salons E-F, and participating in the Performance Metrics Panel led by John Rauser with Peter Sevcik (NetForecast), Eric Goldsmith (AOL), Eric Schurman (Microsoft), on Tuesday, June 24, at 5:15 p.m.

KITE is a product that is used by Keynote customers today.  But at Velocity we will be announcing the KITE Early Adopter program in which Keynote is allowing anyone in the world to sign up (at http://kite.keynote.com) to work with us to put this FREE product to use.  Early Adopters will have in their arsenal a really strong and sophisticated product to measure, test and diagnose the performance of Web applications and sites.

KITE is a new desktop-based test and measurement environment for recording, editing and analyzing the performance of Web sites across the Internet cloud that is intended to bridge the gap between web application developers, QA teams, performance analysts and web operations.

KITE enables Web developers, QA professionals and others, to execute rapid performance analysis and validation to measure the end user experience of next generation Web 2.0 applications that include AJAX and asynchronously downloaded content with point and click ease.  Scripts can be shared as benchmarks and to perform triage among all the web application life cycle groups, including developers, QA, performance analysts and Web operations/IT Departments.

In my next post, I will show how you can use KITE as a performance diagnostic tool for the Google App Engine app Tweetwheel.com!

Here's the performance error I have seen on Tweetwheel.com (click on the image to enlarge):

Here is how KITE shows the performance times by domain - tweetwheel.com, code.google.com, and ie7-js.google.com (click on the image to enlarge):

If you are interested in joining the KITE Early Adopters Program please sign up for our release at http://kite.keynote.com/. See you at Velocity on Monday!

Comments

[Jep Castelein - Backbase]

What I like about this product is that it's measuring from 5 different locations. Web application developers often measure performance on their local workstation or with the app running in a nearby data center. In real life users might be located anywhere in the world, which can have a big impact on performance. I hope KITE will handle CDNs properly, so you'll be able to see the global performance impact of deploying a CDN.

[Alex]

best wishes to the conference to get success. Thanks for your information

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