When it comes to protecting their brand, there is little that any successful company would not do. But what if the brand is being damaged just by people being unable to find the store? If you think of the internet as a virtual network, then DNS lookup and resolution is…
After much anticipation, Black Friday weekend has come and gone, delivering an unprecedented amount of mobile sales. The shopping holiday that used to carry the stigma of shopping mall mayhem has been evolving into primarily an eCommerce event, thinning out the crowded brick-and-mortar stores and causing record-breaking traffic online. According…
The online holiday shopping season starts in earnest this week. Our benchmark e-commerce sites have been picked out, our tests have been set up, now we’ll see how well eRetailers have heeded our advice and the lessons of the past. Who we’re watching: We’ll be monitoring availability and performance for 50…
A while back, we covered how the abundance of third party tags can impact site performance and some best practices for managing the third parties on your site for ensuring the best overall end user experience. Having recognized the impact of these third party ads and trackers, Apple is now…
When Google announced their new Mobilegeddon guidelines – a series of mobile-friendly optimization requirements that was supposed to affect websites’ mobile search rankings on Google – the natural inclination for most businesses was to quickly adhere to those stipulations so as not to fall behind the competition when mobile users…
All metrics based off of the performance data of Catchpoint’s customized list of Top 50 eCommerce sites. While many of us were stuffing ourselves full of turkey, cranberry sauce, and…stuffing on Thanksgiving, internet retailers were gearing up for the massive eCommerce traffic spurred by Black Friday deals. While the brick…
Forget the ghouls, witches, and monsters. The scariest thing for a DevOps person is the effect that a web outage will have on his or her company. For example, take Facebook. The social media giant is projected to eclipse $10 billion in revenue for the first time ever this year,…
What is Singles’ Day? University students in Nanjing, China started celebrating Singles’ Day, or Bachelors’ Day, in the 1990s. It’s a day single people get together to party, but over the last few years, it has also turned into the biggest online shopping day in the world. Why should you…
October is here, and most eCommerce sites have completed the code changes in preparation for the holiday shopping season, so now is the time to test their websites. Here is what some great companies are doing to ensure that their apps and sites are ready to handle the increased traffic…
The world of eCommerce is a never-ending string of challenges that must be met. As soon as one major sale is over, online retailers are already looking ahead to the next one. And from a DevOps perspective, that means making sure that the site can handle the next traffic surge…
