Site speed

During the past couple of months, we have been closely monitoring our site speed and overall performance. We are aware there were times when the site was slow due to the increasing number of visits, and we definitely realise how annoying this can be for you, our users.

I wanted to let everyone know we are aware of this issue and have been working hard on improving the site performance. While this is an ongoing problem which doesn’t have an ultimate solution, by implementing a series of optimizations that we have gradually deployed during the past weeks, we significantly improved the average response times. However, these are still high during peak hours, so we will continue to look into ways for further improvements.

Also, you can expect an improvement in the quality of our recommendations in the next couple of weeks, so we hope you will continue the journey of exploring your taste, and that your experience will become better and better.

This entry was posted on Sunday, March 27th, 2011 at 10:42 pm and is filed under Updates, Usability. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to “Site speed”

  1. Ferdinand says on March 28th, 2011 at 11:53 am :

    “improvement in the quality of our recommendations in the next couple of weeks”
    Could you do a post on that? For what kind of use case are you optimizing? I usually select something I like and try the recommendations based on that.

  2. Morgan says on March 28th, 2011 at 12:16 pm :

    Nice work ! I have a problem with music recommendations based on my profile :
    When I visit this page : http://www.tastekid.com/like/music , I always got the same recommendations.

    Thx :)

  3. Dapwip.com says on March 29th, 2011 at 5:22 am :

    Thanks for the info. This was very interesting.=)