Monthly Archives: July 2010

True Availability of a Webpage

Posted on July 21, 2010 by

Availability, or Uptime, is one of the most important metrics for web performance monitoring, however it is often misunderstood and defined incorrectly. Availability is simply the percentage of time your site, application, or service works successfully. The problems in defining … Continue reading →

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Monitoring the Performance of 3rd Party Providers (CDNs, Ad Servers, Widgets…).

Posted on July 20, 2010 by

The SLA (Service Level Agreement) topic is already well covered – books have been written and libraries filled on this subject- so I will try to avoid writing a book of my own. (BTW my favorite reference is: “Foundations of … Continue reading →

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Another Big Release.

Posted on July 12, 2010 by

Today we are excited to announce the beta launch of Catchpoint Glimpse™, which will provide “real user monitoring”: Real user monitoring lets you track the performance of actual visitors to your websites or web applications. Catchpoint Glimpse provides multiple metrics … Continue reading →

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More about Catchpoint Systems…Q&A

Posted on July 1, 2010 by

What’s the idea behind Catchpoint? Very Simple: make Monitoring Simple and Sexy! (Thank you Dynect for coming up with the MonitoringIsSexy concept! You are very Sexy Too !) We never thought that having a slow web response was in any … Continue reading →

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Who is a Catchpoint Systems?

Posted on July 1, 2010 by

In September 2008, after leaving DoubleClick/Google, we had a mission – but no company name. Thus, for the first year we were 3GenLabs – but then people kept asking us if we were a biotech company. Later, during the Friends … Continue reading →

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