Too many websites make it too the news when they fail to deliver, e.g: eCommerce when they go down on Cyber Monday, Tax Software on Tax Day or Online Banking when people want to check on their latest pay check. In this presentation - presented at several Web Performance, Java, .NET, ... Meetups I walk through the most common performance mistakes people made in recent history. I explain in technical detail what the problem was and how to find these problems earlier as you dont want to wait until your site crashes and you end up in the news.