Mohamed Ibrahim’s Blog

One of the most important factors that will lead to visitors leaving is slow loading pages. And at that point, we should make distinction between sveral types of sluggishness: A. Slow due to HTML bloat B. Slow due to long server processing time C. Slow due to long browser rendering time.

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Recently, I rediscovered atop. It is an excellent command-line tool (just like top) that shows some advanced statistics including disk usage and swap page faults per process. For the disk usage to work per process a kernel patch is currently required. However, even without the kernel patch if you know which processes running on your server you’ll be able to guess which is utilizing the disk more.

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