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Published inJan 2011
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ISBN-139781849681087
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Peter Serzo
Peter Serzo
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Peter Serzo

Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
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Implementing Visual Round Trip Analyzer


Visual Round Trip Analyzer (VRTA) is a tool that helps the SharePoint Administrator identify what is being downloaded at a web page level. One of the biggest complaints from users is the response time. This feedback always finds its way back to the administrator of the SharePoint farm.

VRTA excels in showing the network round trip relationship between the client and the server. This is also critical to the well-being of a farm. While an administrator can optimize the server response, there are several other parties that can inadvertently be working against this:

  • Web developers: These folks create the HTML, CSS, and stylesheets.

  • End users: They load content such as images, which directly hampers performance.

  • Application developers: These folks load JavaScript, jQuery, and now have the client object model at their disposal.

All of these listed parties create solutions using SharePoint Designer, Notepad, and possibly Visual Studio, and the administrator...

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Published in: Jan 2011Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781849681087

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Peter Serzo

Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
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