As mentioned in a blog post last week, we will be providing weekly updates on our efforts to boost the overall performance of WebJunction.org. As always, if you have specific questions or problems, please email us at support@webjunction.org or share them in the help & support discussions.

Updates for Week of September 2nd:

• New server capacity is confirmed for an update this coming weekend, which is an important step towards improving overall site performance.
• We’re in the process of benchmarking the performance of various pages and workflows across the site using an outside service that mimics real user connection scenarios (geographic locations, bandwidth speeds, hardware, browsers, and so on). Once done, we’ll share what those benchmarks are so we can share our progress against them.
• Along with that benchmarking comes setting priorities – what situations that our members and partner see are the most critical and also under-performing? Our product management and development teams are hard at work this week on refining this list, based on the feedback we’ve received from the community (through both email and discussions – see above and help us out!).

We’ve already seen noticeable upticks in response times for our home page as a result of recent efforts, but plenty of work remains. Stay tuned for more updates.

(These updates will normally come on Tuesdays, but were delayed due to Labor Day).
The WebJunction Team