November 28, 2014, the day after Thanksgiving, is Black Friday. Based on sales from last year, most Black Friday events will start earlier on Thanksgiving and extend later throughout the Black Friday weekend and into Cyber Monday 2014 (December 1). So…is your site ready for a double whammy and one…
The following is based on a true story. The names have been omitted, and the places and times changed to protect those who suffered from slow internet. Everything was all set. A hot cup of coffee was sitting next to the keyboard, the entire family’s wish lists were laid out…
When faced with choosing between internal application monitoring and external synthetic monitoring, many business professionals are under the impression that as long their website is up and running, then there must not be any problems with it. This, however, couldn’t be further from the truth. The need for an external synthetic…
The following is based on a true story. The names have been omitted, and the places and times changed to protect those who suffered from slow internet. The line at the TSA security screening had already begun to extend beyond the “Line Begins Here” sign, and was only going to…
There are few things more frustrating these days than the lag we experience when trying to access certain sites. Between net neutrality issues, latency in mobile networks, and sites delivering too much info than our data plans allow, the average internet user is growing less and less patient of lag…
With such quick and easy access to game scores, directions, video streaming, photo sharing, and up-to-the-moment news, mobile web is being consumed at a frenzied pace. Internet usage has doubled in the last 5 years and Mobile Web usage is growing 8x faster than web. What’s the result of this…
Today’s blog is a repost from Peter McLachlan, Chief Architect at Mobify. The article originally appeared on Mobify’s blog on July 23, 2013. As a web developer, you’re likely well aware that a key rule to high performance web design is to make fewer HTTP requests — especially on smartphones, where high latencies are…
The majority of the top retail websites performed very well on Black Friday weekend. Congratulations to all of you, engineers, operations, devops, performance engineers, network engineers and everyone else involved! Based on talks I had with various retail customers these past weeks, I knew most web sites would do well…
Last week we brought up the question, “How did end users learn to expect fast websites?” We covered how Pavlov discovered Conditioning through experiments with his dog, which left us wondering; perhaps humans are conditioned to expect instant web gratification. Of Rats and Dopamine Almost 100 years after Pavlov, Wolfram Schultz,…
By now everyone is familiar with the mantra ‘web performance and customer satisfaction/revenue generation go hand in hand.’ End users now expect fast websites and will abandon yours if it is perceived to be slow. Earlier this year, The NYT published an article stating that 250 ms is now…
