Visualize Data With Catchpoint and Tableau Integration
Catchpoint’s latest integration enables DEM data to be visualized through Tableau.
Best practices for a fast performing banking website
We recently wrote about the importance of conducting competitive web performance benchmarking to examine how your site compares to others. We identified five aspects to include in your analysis. Page load time Application availability Webpage size and content Third-party analysis User engagement / transactions We analyzed the performance of 26…
Analyzing the Impact of a Public DNS Resolver Outage
DNS is the most important component of the engine that keeps the internet running. If DNS is not managed effectively or the servers go down, applications are inaccessible and users are frustrated. Public DNS servers are becoming the preferred DNS server among the internet population. They improve the online customer…
Practicality of Observability
Technology teams are not immune to hype and trends. Today one of the hottest topics is Observability. Everyone seems to be jumping on the observability bandwagon. Companies are building observability teams and looking to purchase observability tools. Observability isn’t necessarily a new thing. Having spent two decades building, monitoring, and…
A Complete Performance Breakdown of 1.1.1.1: Cloudflare’s Public DNS Resolver
I have always been a huge fan of external DNS resolvers such as OpenDNS and Google Public DNS resolvers. I truly believe that they do improve the online customer experience since most ISPs do either a poor job at managing their DNS or they do DNS rewrites. Cloudflare recently launched…
Protecting SaaS Revenue Through SLA Monitoring
One of the biggest nightmares for any service provider is to find themselves in SLA (service level agreement) hell due to poor performance. An issue that negatively impacts end users’ experience is inevitably going to have an effect on a company’s business metrics, and when that happens, they’re going to…
Using Catchpoint to Analyze Third-party Impact
Modern websites are increasingly dependent on third-party services for most of the features it provides like widgets, ads, social marketing tags, page analytics, conversion tracking, etc. Performance optimization is no longer limited to managing the size and format of the images embedded on a webpage and the page itself; it…
Why You Should Be Measuring Time to Last Byte in 2018
This post was written in partnership with Teridion. The end of the year is a time for reflection. It’s when most of us are looking back at the choices, accomplishments, and mistakes of the year prior and setting goals to improve the following year. It’s also when businesses analyze the year’s trends…
The Key to Cache: An Intro to Varnish
We’ve published several articles on the topic of caching and its role in optimizing web performance in the past. In this article, we will focus specifically on varnish, which is an HTTP accelerator otherwise known as caching HTTP reverse proxy. What are HTTP Accelerators? HTTP accelerators use techniques such as…
Dissecting the Ideal Dashboard
A web-based dashboard is similar in function to a vehicle dashboard in many ways. A vehicle dashboard typically features tools and symbols will help the driver monitor multiple items at once like speed, fuel, engine functioning, etc. Not only do these meters and indicators help ensure a safe and pleasant…