“We built our own software in-house and maintain it in our own data center. We don’t use someone else’s resources, like Amazon. And we get a lot of traffic – and it’s a business-critical application! I’m in t...

Gone are the days of a simple Web page with one or two people updating it,” says Shawn White, director of external operations for Keynote. “Nowadays, you have dozens, if not hundreds of servers and computers that are all over the world trying to serve up this content as fast as possible, and bein...

Slow web page loads make for a very bad user experience that can cause visitors to abandon sites. Recent studies suggest that visitors expect a page to load in just two seconds. So ad delivery that slows page performance down, or videos that take forever to stream, have a real financial impact. T...

The most widely adopted approaches to load testing include the purchase of tools for in-house use and the newer, vendor-hosted load testing service approach.

Slow Websites can lead to loss of customers and revenue, so assessing Website performance to identify performance bottlenecks is a key task. And being proactive by determining in advance the performance limits of your Website and Web applications is essential to ensuring its optimal functioning u...

Keeping your Website performing consistently and available at all times is essential to the success of your online business. Website monitoring helps you ensure that your Website is functioning optimally and is accessible to Internet users every second. From checking Website average load time on ...

The need for online speed is well-documented through stats and stories of abandoned carts, visitors lost, brands tarnished. The rule today more than ever is that every millisecond of delay costs real money in lost revenue

There’s always been a danger in performance management of getting c...

Online retailers have their own sets of tricks of the trade to better acquire and retain mobile customers. But sometimes, those treats can be sour grapes in a wrapper for the end user.

With increasing statistics showing the impatience of mobile customers (65 percent of mobile users prefer...

Why should you optimize your mobile site for the holidays? A study from Comscore revealed that 4 out of 5 of the US’s ~86 million smartphone users accessed retail content on their smartphone during July 2012.

Many smartphone users check pricing and deals on their phones even while visitin...

Success-minded businesses are already there, but only a minority has tested their apps or sites.

"The old model – a stationary customer sitting at a stationery desk – no longer applies." That's how The New York Times tersely describes the dilemma "old school" companies l...