As the summer draws to a close and back-to-school sales wind down, retailers will soon be focusing their attention on the holiday shopping season. They’ll take special care to ensure that their ecommerce websites remain available and fast under heavy site traffic, protecting both brand and revenue. Whilst monitoring page load and response times and the Internet…
In Part I of this series, we examined the impact that SEO has on web performance. In this article, we analyze the performance impact of SEO within China and from the perspective of mobile sites. Mobile-first Strategy Back in November 2016, Google announced they were experimenting to make their index mobile-first. Google…
Does your scroll bar get stuck when you scroll down to a webpage or do you see some delay while loading your images once you scroll down to the bottom of the screen? This erratic behavior that sometimes occurs while scrolling is referred to as ‘scrolling stickiness.’ Smooth scrolling is…
This is the second blog in a series of three in which I expand on some of the points raised in O’Reilly Media’s DevOps for Media & Entertainment report. The first post covered the two essential aspects of DevOps that are often overlooked: communication and empathy. Today, we dive into a…
A strategically curated website and an online presence can provide tremendous benefits only if consumers of your business can find your website faster and easier than your competitors’. A decade ago, the Nielsen Norman Group conducted an eye-tracking study to understand how the human eye consumes data on a webpage. The dominant reading pattern looked like…
In our previous post in this series, we suggested treating China as a second Internet. This concept implies the need to setup a separate monitoring strategy that is tailored to China, rather than just adding it on to your existing strategy. This post provides a step-by-step process to getting a…
In Michael Lewis’s 2013 best-seller Flash Boys, in which he takes a deep dive into the world of high-speed trading, he reveals how certain financial insiders had managed to game the system by reducing latency as much as possible in order to get an advantage over their competitors. Lewis showed…
Breaking into any new geographical market isn’t easy, but China presents a set of unique technical obstacles that makes this especially difficult. In a previous post, we provided an overview of the Chinese market and discussed the need for a different business strategy based on the Golden Shield Project, aka…
If you want a good example of how digital transformation has affected a long-established business model, look no further than retail banking. Bank customers today can perform most transactions online, via website or mobile app, without having to walk into a bank branch. This includes checking balances, making payments, transferring…
There’s been a lot of discussion lately regarding the need to track and improve MTTR, but what exactly does MTTR mean? Well, MTTR can stand for several different things: mean time to repair, mean time to recovery, and mean time to resolve. Not only are there different definitions, but when…
