Simpy Chichimichi

Regular Simpy users know some new gear was put in place about a month ago. When that happened I wanted to post some charts that show the dramatic performance improvements, just like I posted performance charts after some tuning and performance charts after some caching. After that tuning and caching was done, I went to see Simpy's performance chart on GrabPERF and found it right behind Technorati and Google (see Technorati - Google - Simpy)! Needless to say, I was very pleased. This was about 9-10 months ago.

So, if I was very pleased back then, when Simpy was the third fastest site monitored by GrabPERF, imagine my joy when I saw Simpy ahead of Google, Technorati, del.icio.us, Amazon.... While Simpy is regularly ahead of del.icio.us, Google is almost always in that #1 spot. However, not today - Simpy was a whole 0.03 seconds ahead of Google, and I have a screenshot to prove it:

What is even more interesting and more exciting for me, is that Simpy performed this well while working extra hard after being included in the story about The Top 10 Underrated Web 2.0 Sites (apparently Simpy falls in the Underrated category, at least for some folks). This story that made it to Digg's home page, and we all know what that means. Did I mentioned you should go digg that story and help it stay on Digg's front page a little longer (e.g. Monday morning)?