Monthly Archives: February 2012

Last Mile Monitoring: Web Performance at 40,000 Feet Altitude

Posted on February 28, 2012 by

  My job requires frequent traveling between the East and West coast. On every trip, I can’t wait for the plane to reach the 10,000 feet altitude so I can turn on my computer and connect to the onboard Wi-Fi … Continue reading →

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3rd Party Providers and DNS Poisoning Risks – Updated

Posted on February 21, 2012 by

  Third party providers bring a lot of benefits to a website including lower operational cost (CDNs), revenue generation (Ads), and better insights (Analytics). Just like any component of a system, they also bring risks, which both providers and sites … Continue reading →

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Going Under the Knife: The Home Depot Perflift

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

In our blog we focus a lot on failures and performance issues as it is the best way to educate our readers on how to deal with their performance fires. However, today we are blogging about the opposite – it … Continue reading →

Posted in Chart of the Week, PerfLift, Tips, Web Performance, WPO | 3 Comments

First Catchpoint Release for 2012

Posted on February 6, 2012 by

What better way to start 2012 than with a big product release! Our engineering team completed over 100 user stories. Here are three key features that were released and are a first in a synthetic monitoring solution: New Monitor Type: Playback … Continue reading →

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