23 March 2015, Exeter. Project

Pages under three seconds, with the evidence

I took on portal page performance, used user caching to bring exchange pages consistently under about three seconds and proved it with repeatable load tests that I reported to the US head of development.

  • Reliability
  • Quality

~3 s

per page, consistently

load tests with thousands of transactions

What would have happened

Pages stayed slow under load, with results that were hard to reproduce.

The call

Make the result repeatable: same scripts, same data resets, documented runs.

What I did

Tuned user caching, reran the load tests on clean databases and published the run details and purge scripts.

What changed

Page times held under about three seconds run after run, and the US head of development replied 'Awesome, thanks'.

Proof

The original documents are held in my private record and can be shared on request.