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It’s All in the Timing: How to Use the Navigation Timing Specification to Improve Web Performance

This post is written by Darin Wright. Darin is a Principal Software Engineer at New Relic who works on all things related to RUM — collecting, aggregating, persisting, and presenting end user metrics. The Navigation Timing Specification is a JavaScript API detailing the timing information of a page load. Available in most newer browsers (including [...]

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Case Study: Code School Rocks with New Relic

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: We <3 it when customers write their own case studies. As a company, there’s nothing more enjoyable than finding out how our customers use New Relic and then watching them share their experiences with the world. Every time this happens, we learn something new and are [...]

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Community New: Best Practices for Using New Relic with Engine Yard and More

In this week’s community news, we get best practices of using New Relic with Engine Yard, find out how O’Reilly gave the Velocity website a makeover and more. * Engine Yard shares best practices for using New Relic with your Engine Yard Cloud or Managed account. * Code School shows how they use New Relic to [...]

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How We Tune Our Own App Using RUM Data

Around here we drink our own champagne and we use New Relic to tune New Relic. We recently set some fairly aggressive performance standards for ourselves by lowering our end user Apdex-T value to 2.4 seconds, which is rather fast. We’re saying that our users expect our pages to load in 2.4 seconds or less. Our [...]

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Getting Started with Drupal: Building Blocks

This is the first of two posts in the series Getting Started with Drupal, by guest writer Tobias Sjösten. Tobias is a web technician and open source aficionado who specializes in the LAMP stack, with Symfony and Drupal being especially close to his heart. He writes code in Vim, plays MUDs in gnome-terminal and naturally believes [...]

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