Monthly Archives: January 2008

What does (Aborted) mean in HttpWatch?

The result column in HttpWatch may sometimes display the value (Aborted) instead of an HTTP status code:

(Aborted) is one of three pseudo status codes that are used in HttpWatch to display information about HTTP requests that did not receive a status code from the server:

(Aborted)
(Cache)
ERROR_*

The last two values are fairly straight forward. The (Cache) result is displayed when content […]

The Performance Impact of Uploaded Data

Web developers are becoming more aware of the performance penalties of page bloat and as we covered in our previous posts there are ways to mitigate this, compression being just one.
However, one of the causes of poor performance that is often overlooked is the transmission time taken to upload data to the server. Although, HTTP request […]