Looking at the statistics, Symbian leads the mobile operating system race with just over 30% of web browsing traffic. That’s down slightly from late last year, when we noted that Symbian finished 2011 as the top mobile operating system, with almost 34% of the mobile OS market.

What is even more interesting, however, is that Nokia is also ahead when we look at figures for all the mobile handset vendors. In fact, Nokia is way ahead of Apple, and Android lags far behind.

Symbian still on top, but Android is growing fast

In the latest figures we looked at, covering the first three weeks of February 2012, we can see that Symbian is still the top mobile OS, with a 30.3% market share. Apple’s iOS come in just behind Symbian at 25.35%, and Android follows at 24.72%. BlackBerry OS has lost a lot of ground and lands at 6.8%, just ahead of Samsung at 5.06%. Samsung’s bada manages to gather up 0.52%, and Microsoft’s Windows Phone has a 0.4% share of the mobile OS market. What used to be HP’s webOS barely manages to score enough to get in the rankings with only 0.04%.

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Nokia is top mobile handset vendor

If we instead look at the market share divided on vendor, Nokia manages to get a 36. 09% market share, ahead of Apple at 30.41%, and Samsung at 14.82%. RIM falls in at 8.19%, Sony Ericsson at 3.54%, and HTC at 3.52%.

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Even if you make a rough estimate for how much of this that Android accounts for, by adding up the numbers for vendors playing in that space, like Samsung, HTC, and Motorola, Android only reaches about 25% (note the 24.72% market share for Android in the first chart). And that’s not taking into account that not all handsets from these vendors will run Android. Both Samsung and HTC, for example, also make Windows Phone handsets.

Nokia may be on top, but for how long?

It seems like we keep hearing bad news concerning Nokia; that its financial results aren’t that good and that sales are dwindling. And we think most would agree that the Finnish mobile giant squandered the strong grip it had on the market before Apple came along with the first iPhone.

Although Nokia and Symbian still come out on top according to these numbers, the company must be looking hard and fast at how it can get back to its former glory. It’s too early to tell what effect, if any, Nokia’s launch into Windows Phone territory has had. Although Windows Phone’s part of the mobile OS market is a minuscule 0.4%, we also don’t know how much of that is Nokia. But obviously, with that small market share, that doesn’t matter much.

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Before we start collecting data, we need to register the new monitor. To do that, invoke the script with the --register option. You have to specify the path to your BerkeleyDB environment and your Monitis-assigned apiKey and secretKey (To find out your specific keys, go to “Tools -> API -> API Keys” menu in the Monitis console):

$./monitor_bdb.pl -register --envDir /path/to/bdb/environment --monitorGroup BDB --monitorName BDB_1 --apiKey '****' --secretKey '*****'

Creating monitor BDB_1 in monitorGroup BDB...
Created monitor with id=2305
Uploading statistics for monitor 2305...

When invoked with the --register option, the script will create a custom monitor in Monitis, collect BerkeleyDB environment statistics, and upload the data to your Monitis account in the cloud. From this point on, to collect data, you should run the monitor script without the ‘--register‘ option. You can use cron or another scheduler to collect and upload data at pre-defined intervals.

After the monitor has run for a while to accumulate data, log on to Monitis, click Custom Monitors, select the check box next to the new monitor and click Add to Window:

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Once the monior window opens, switch to the Line Chart view and select Cache Hit Rate from the selection box on the left to display the graph:

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Looking at the graph, it is obvious that the cache hit rate has decreased substantially in a short amount of time. But there is more to Monitis than pretty graphs – it can also alert you if a certain parameter exceeds or falls below a predefined value. In our case, we could create an alert with a threshold of 75% cache hit rate. To do that, click on the pencil icon in the right corner of the window caption to put the monitor window in edit mode and click on the “Notification Rules”:<a href="http://www.website-monitoring.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/0e1a7_EditMode1.png”><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2987" src="http://www.website-monitoring.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/0e1a7_EditMode1.png” alt=”Edit Mode” width=”550″ />

When the Notification Rules window opens, we enter the contact and trigger details and click on the Add Rule button.

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After we click Done, the notification rule will be saved and Monitis will notify you if the cache hit rate falls below your chosen threshold.

That’s all there is to it! The hardest part of using a custom monitor is writing script(s) to register the monitor and to collect and upload the data. Fortunately, Monitis provides an easy to use SDK, with bindings for all popular scripting languages, that makes writing such scripts a breeze – just visit our GitHub repository; where you will also find a library of ready-made monitoring scripts for many popular products.

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Minimize the Number of Connections

Establishing connections is relatively costly, so it is no surprise that performance is better with a smaller number of connections. One way to accomplish this is to combine multiple components into a single download. This eliminates all but one of those connections. Example: If we combine our play, pause, stop, forward, and backward images into one sprite, we can eliminate four of the five connections.

Scripts, images, and style sheets are great candidates for this tip. They can be combined and the number of connections can be reduced. However, keep in mind the needed-now, needed-soon, and maybe-needed-later categories described in Website Performance: Downloading JavaScript.

Keep It Short & Simple

Perhaps the easiest way to eliminate connections is to eliminate components. This is an example of the age-old KISS principle, which says to keep it short and simple.

There is a trade-off between simplicity and functionality, though. The more functionality we offer on a page, the bigger and more complex that page will be. This most likely means an increase in the number of components. KISS reduces complexity, but it can also reduce functionality.

There will be some resistance to the idea of reducing functionality because increased functionality is believed to provide more benefit to the user. However, keep in mind that it may just as easily confuse and irritate the user. Consider reducing functionality by splitting complex web pages into two. That approach may (or may not) be suitable for your application. Going to the extreme in either direction is not recommended.

IMHO, designing with human factors in mind and applying useability testing seem to have fallen by the wayside over the last few years. I am suggesting that there may be ways of offering more meaningful interactions by reducing the complexity and clutter on our web pages.

Fit the Request Into a Single Packet

Ideally the request sent from the client to the server should fit into a single IP packet. If it goes over this limit by even one byte, a second packet is required. Every packet used affects performance.

Packets are typically 1,500 bytes long, but other things need to fit in that 1,500 bytes, too. Packet overhead and browser-added headers are not under the webapp’s control, but they occupy space in the packet nevertheless and we cannot predict how many bytes they will use. Our goal, then, is not to limit our request to 1,500 bytes, but to make it as small as we can and hope that everything fits into one packet.

Since cookies and get/post data occupy packet space, our goal should be to minimize their size as much as we can. Consider using server-side state data (e.g., session variables, databases) instead of client-side state data.

Avoid SSL

HTTPS (HTTP with SSL) requires handshaking and negotiation that HTTP does not use, which means HTTP performs better than HTTPS. If the page doesn’t need HTTPS’s encryption, use HTTP instead.

This applies to individual components, too. If a component doesn’t need encryption, don’t use encryption. [I wonder how many companies are encrypting their logos?]

Avoid Redirects

Redirects occur when a page or component is specified by an outdated URL. The client sends a request to the server. The server sees that the resource has been moved. Rather than returning the resource from its new location, the server sends a response back to the client to tell it where the resource is now located. Having learned that the page or component has been moved, the client then starts the whole process all over again by issuing yet another request.

If this situation is caused by a URL written into one of our web pages, we must take responsibility for the performance degradation that results from the extra request. We could have resolved the problem when we moved the component to its new location by correcting the URL in all our web pages at that time. Clearly there is no excuse for the extra request.

We can’t stop users from typing a URL into the location field of the browser, but we may be able to send them to the correct place with an internal rewrite instead of an external redirect. The server fixes the problem instead of telling the browser to. The extra trip is thereby avoided.

Some websites make a point of listing their public-access URL’s and then never changing them. This gives the users a consistent list of entry points into the system. The designers then make sure those URL’s are always valid, so well-behaved users never suffer from redirects.

Add the Backslash

It’s simple, and it’s been said often enough: When we specify a directory’s URL, we should always append the backslash. If we don’t, the server has to fix the problem or ask the browser to fix it. The latter is much more costly than the former, but both are unnecessary. All we have to do is always add the backslash to a directory’s URL.

References

Analysis of HTTP Performance Problems by Simon E Spero. Republished 1995.06.02 by ibiblio at http://www.ibiblio.org/mdma-release/http-prob.html. Accessed 2012.01.25. This article is ancient by Internet standards. It is included here because it helps us understand foundational concepts that are still relevant today.

Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site by Yahoo’s Exceptional Performance Team.  Published by Yahoo at developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html.  Accessed 2012.01.13.

Diagnosing Slow Web Servers with Time to First Byte by Andy King.  Published 2011.12.10 by Website Optimization, LLC at websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/time-to-first-byte.  Accessed 2012.01.13.

High Performance Web Sites – 14 Rules for Faster-Loading Web Sites by Steve Souders.  Published by Steve Souders at SteveSouders.com/hpws/rules.php.  Accessed 2012.01.13.

Minimize Request Overhead. Published by google at <a href="http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/request.html”>http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/request.html.  Accessed 2012.01.21.

Minimize Round-Trip Times.  Published by google at <a href="http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rtt.html”>code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rtt.html.  Accessed 2012.01.13.

Monitis Free Page Load Testing Tool.  Published by Monitis at pageload.monitis.com.  Accessed 2012.01.13.

Web Performance Best Practices.  Published by google at <a href="http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rules_intro.html”>code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rules_intro.html.  Accessed 2012.01.13.

Website Performance: Taxonomy of Tips by Warren Gaebel.  Published 2011.12.29 by Monitis at blog.monitor.us/2011/12/website-performance-taxonomy-of-tips.  Accessed 2012.01.13.

Try Monitis For Free.  A 15-day free trial.  Your opportunity to see how easy it is to use the Monitis cloud-based monitoring system.  Credit card not required.  Accessed 2012.01.13.

The Monitis Exchange at GitHub.  This is the official repository for scripts, plugins, and SDKs that make it a breeze to use the Monitis system to its full potential.  Accessed 2012.01.13.

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SAN JOSE, Calif., February, 15, 2012 – Monitis, the leading cloud and web application monitoring software provider, today announces that it has added comprehensive MySQL database monitoring to its award-winning Application Performance Management & monitoring platform. The robust Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tool enables users to gain significantly faster insight when conducting root cause analysis.

The <a href="http://portal.monitis.com/index.php/products/mysql-monitoring“>MySQL monitoring feature includes 246 monitoring variables and more than 21 different metrics to provide one of the easiest to use, yet comprehensive database monitoring tools available. It was first introduced into the free Monitor.Us platform back in June last year and has seen the code battle hardened by many hundred free users over the last 8 months.

Hovhannes Avoyan, founder and General Manager at Monitis commented “This feature makes it easy for systems administrators and web developers to measure and monitor the performance of their php environments such as joomla and wordpress, from multiple locations around the world. It gives them a true picture of application performance from where ever in the world the user is. Because the Monitis MySQL monitor is part of the Monitis platform it provides an unprecedented holistic view of software, database and underlying hardware, giving pressured techs the ability to quickly and easily diagnose the root cause of slow application performance.”

The service uses a small Linux agent that can monitor inside an organization’s firewall and distributed systems. The Monitis agent connects to a local or remote database and collects a variety of health and performance metrics that are graphically displayed in real-time on a web-based dashboard. Users can also set up notifications (should their database go down or pass a certain level of access volume) based on client-defined thresholds and rules.

Some metrics tracked and reported on by Monitis — which can be set up in minutes — include:

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• Database size
• Resource utilization
• Analysis of responsiveness/latency
• Analysis of throughput
• Database usage
• Scalability

“Monitis’ SaaS delivery and pay as you go pricing mean it’s easy to get going and has low set up and running costs. It puts the power of MySQL monitoring in the reach of techs who otherwise wouldn’t have had the time to set up or budget to afford such a comprehensive solution.” adds Avoyan

Monitis MySQL monitoring provides much greater check-in frequency, as low as every 5 minutes, and the ability to check the performance of the database from multiple locations around the world.

About Monitis

Monitis is the leading provider of Cloud-based Application Performance Management & monitoring solutions for System Admins and Web Developers. Over 80,000 users worldwide have chosen Monitis to increase uptime and user experience of their services and products.

Monitis’ core product offerings include website monitoring, website full page load testing, transaction monitoring, application and database monitoring, cloud resource monitoring, and server and internal network monitoring. What makes Monitis’ software different is how fast it is to deploy, its flexible pricing and feature-rich technology that provides a comprehensive single-pane view of on-premise and off-premise infrastructure and applications.

More information on <a href="http://portal.monitis.com/index.php/products/mysql-monitoring“>Monitis MySQL monitoring is available on our website.

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• Flash Player Update Nixes Zero-Day Flaw
• Anonymous Plans to Go After DNS Root Servers. What Will Be the US’s Response?
• Reports busts several myths about the way the industry views the impact of distributed DDoS attacks
• Insight into cloud trends reveals opportunity for service providers and system integrators to support companies’ transition to cloud
• Report details significant growth in cybercrime in the second half of 2011

About the show

The show is hosted by Magnus Nystedt at Pingdom. For this show <a href="http://<a href="http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/05/04/twitter-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/”>twitter.com/nsolling”>Nicolai Solling, Director of Technology Services help AG, is the cohost. help AG is a strategic information security consulting company.

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Server monitoring service from Site24x7 provides an agent-based monitoring solution that lets you track the availability and performance counters like CPU, disk and memory of your Windows servers/desktops. A simple and reliable solution, server monitoring is offered from a hosted platform, thus instantly relieving you from the maintenance and upgrade worries of costly installed software. Its a install once and forget about it kind of agent. It update Site24x7.com with the performance metrics and can update itself.

Sign-up, install & configure. Ready to go in 5 simple steps.

Unlike other installed monitoring software, you don’t require an ‘expert team’ to handle this service. Follow 5 simple steps and you are ready to manage your Windows servers/desktops.

• Sign-up for Site24x7 trial account. (if you not have one already)

• Add a new server monitor.

• Download and install the Windows Agent software in your Windows servers/desktops.

• Set the usage thresholds for critical server counters like CPU, memory and disk.

• Leave the rest to Site24x7.

How does the server monitor work?

The Windows Agent software uses WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) protocol to collect metrics related the counters CPU, memory and disk and pushes this data to the Site24x7 server. Alerts (SMS/Email/RSS/<a href="http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/05/04/twitter-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/”>twitter) will be sent immediately when your server/desktop is detected unavailable or crosses your set threshold limits. This enables you to take corrective actions should anything go wrong, before your end-users/business is affected.

There are proper mechanisms in place to check if the installed Windows agent is working properly in the machine. The agent heart-beat check is continuously done at the Site24x7 central server and notifications will be sent if data is not received from the agent after a particular time. Similarly, the agent will notify the central server in case of a proper shut down at the installed site. This allows you to verify if the Windows agent itself is working properly or not.

Historical data which is collected and shown using exhaustive reporting features gives you a detailed insight into the availability and performance of your server/desktop. This data can come handy while doing capacity planning or other related business decisions.
You can monitor your websites from a global point of present using Site24x7 and now even monitor the underlying Windows servers that serve it !

Evaluation users can try it without restrictions. Sign up / Sign in now. Existing customers too can try it for free. If you suspend the server monitoring within 10 days, you will not be billed for the trial monitors that you setup.

FAQs

1. Do I have to open up firewall ports to use server monitor?
      No. The agent listens through port 443 which is open by default. If at all the port 443 is not open in your machine, the same must be opened to facilitate server monitoring.

2. Do you need passwords of my machine?
      You need not share any passwords with Site24x7. However the person who installs the Windows Agent software needs to have administrator privileges to do so in a machine.

3. Can you monitor a process on my Windows machine?
      Our development team is currently working on monitoring process, services and network statistics in Windows machines. You can expect this enhancement to be released soon.

4. I am an existing customer. How can I try the Server monitoring?
      Existing customers can try the server monitoring by adding a “Server Monitor” as usual. You will not be billed if you delete the server monitors within 10 days. However if you need any clarifications, please get in touch with Site24x7 support.

Server monitor is the latest release from Site24x7. Read more about it under <a target="_blank" href="https://www.site24x7.com/server-monitoring.html”>server monitor or Sign up Now for our 15 days free trial.

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Every Friday we bring you a collection of links to places on the web that we find particularly newsworthy, interesting, entertaining, and topical. We try to focus on some particular area or topic each week, but in general we will cover Internet, web development, networking, performance, and other geeky topics.

This week we bring you a collection of articles focusing on OpenStack.

This week’s suggested reading

• Five Open Source Technologies for 2012 (including OpenStack): Everyone knows about the success of Linux and Apache, but here are other open source technologies on the rise.
• Rackspace soon to partner with developers of private OpenStack distros: Rackspace plans to include commercial private OpenStack distributions in its Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition offering.
• Scaling Media Storage at Wikimedia with Swift: After evaluating a number of options, we chose to pursue OpenStack Swift. Swift is a distributed object storage system with automatic replication.
• OpenStack’s secret weapon is modularity: Although somewhat late to the market for cloud computing infrastructure, OpenStack enjoys an advantage over other cloud stacks in that it has a modular architecture, said one of the first developers of the open-source cloud software.
• ‘Linux for cloud’ floats anti-Amazon cloud taster: How does a cloud project solve a problem like Amazon? The once genteel etailer of toasters, books and CDs has now become a byword for “cloud”.
• Brian Stevens on Red Hat’s Involvement with OpenStack: Red Hat has been involved with OpenStack development for some time, and it still isn’t saying exactly what it hopes to get from OpenStack contributions, but Brian Stevens did divulge a bit about the company’s involvement.
• Cloudscaling wants to make OpenStack webscale: Cloud computing consultancy Cloudscaling is realigning its business around the open-source OpenStack framework, and it has a message for the world: If you want to use open-source software but operate like Amazon Web Services, we’re your man.
• CloudTweaks’ “The lighter side of the cloud” cartoons: Weekly cartoons showcasing the funny side of cloud computing.
• Polyglot persistence at Pinterest: Redis, Membase, MySQL.

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We had the privilege of presenting a talk on performance monitoring to  800+ of the world’s top online retail IT experts at the renowned Internet Retailer – Website Design and Usability Conference in Orlando, Florida on February 15, 2012  alongside Matt Hoenck, the IT Director at Thymes.com. BTW,  Matt is a great guy and a top-gun online retail IT performance professional who uses Dotcom-Monitor.

Matt has used Dotcom-Monitor for several years and did a great job describing how he used UserView monitoring to avoid website slowdowns due to third-party code snippet issues.

For an article recapping the basics of the presentations (and a nice pic of Matt) go here: http://www.internetretailer.com/2012/02/15/irwd-2012-balancing-beauty-and-speed

To try-out the performance monitoring tools that Matt describes go here:

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We think we have a pretty good idea.

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We relied on InternetWorldStats.com as our source for how many people worldwide are online as well as the world’s population. Its latest figures are from December 31, 2011, and show that 2,267,233,742 people are on the Internet worldwide, meaning an Internet penetration of 32.7%. The previous number published by Internet World Stats, from March 2011, said 2,095,006,005 people worldwide were on the Internet.

Let’s break the number of new Internet users down. In total, 172,227,737 people started using the Internet from March to December 2011. This breaks down as follows:

• 19,136,415 – Per month.
• 4,784,103 – Per week.
• 683,443 – Per day.
• 28,476 – Per hour.
• 474 – Per minute.
• 7.9 – Per second.

That’s almost 8 new people coming onto the Internet every second – that’s pretty amazing.

It’s clear where the potential is

To say that this is just the beginning though is an understatement. If you look at the Internet penetration numbers for the different parts of the world, you can clearly see where the growth is going to come from. North America is probably approaching saturation with 78.5% Internet penetration, and Europe and Oceania/Australia are not too far behind. The situation in Africa and Asia, however, is different, with only 13.5% and 26.2% Internet penetration respectively.

Imagine, when a bigger percentage of the huge populations of China and India come online, for example.

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• Updates on the progress of the Carbon <a href="http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/05/04/twitter-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/”>twitter app for Windows Phone. It’s finally available in Windows Marketplace.
• What the… Happened to Apple’s Attention to Detail?
• Rich Brueckner from InsideHPC.com joins us to talk about the world of supercomputers.

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The show is hosted by Magnus Nystedt at Pingdom and <a href="http://<a href="http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/05/04/twitter-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/”>twitter.com/dot1ne”>Saleh Esmaeili, User Experience Designer at dots & lines in UAE, currently working on Carbon for Windows Phone, <a href="https://<a href="http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/05/04/twitter-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/”>twitter.com/#!/carbonandroid”>Android, and iOS.

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