Ecommerce website performance has always been a sort of treasure trove of examples for performance monitoring. Sometimes they’re good examples of best practices and how performance degradations were prepared for and handled in real time. But sometimes, ecommerce performance issues are so significant and customer-facing, that they end up as…
A basic real user monitoring tool is no longer enough to handle the complexities of the modern web. Today’s sophisticated applications call for a RUM solution that is equally sophisticated. If you are already using a RUM solution or are evaluating multiple vendors, then here are some points to consider.…
Every day people use the internet to buy new clothes, manage their bank accounts and view their health records. This information is sensitive and needs to be kept safe, the main mechanism for this is encryption. For the internet, this means wrapping the language of the web, Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) with…
When it comes to traffic spikes and website availability – there’s no time like yesterday to prepare. Just because high-traffic events are expected, like Amazon’s recent Prime Day, doesn’t mean you’re safe from failure. We’ve created a comprehensive checklist to help you prepare for surges. Download it here to prep…
Two things I have always enjoyed are numbers and stories. You might think these are not related, but to me they are. Metrics or numbers on their own aren’t very interesting. The stories behind those numbers are what matters. Facts and figures generally don’t elicit emotions or drive people to…
What does it take to be an entrepreneur? This was the question posed this week at a meetup co-hosted by Catchpoint and Rochester Institute of Technology. As I listened to the talks, I reflected on the various experiences I’ve had with startups throughout my career and advice I’ve heard from…
Gartner [1] predicts that more than half of global enterprises currently using cloud will adopt an all-in cloud strategy by 2021. Cloud adoption is growing because it comes with many advantages—like easy provisioning of new resources when there’s demand for it. Plus, there are generally short-term money savings as well.…
Knowing whether your website is available and reachable for users is one of the primary reasons to monitor a website. To track availability and reliability website and application owners rely on a range of solutions such as synthetic monitoring, real user monitoring (RUM), and application performance monitoring (APM). Synthetic monitoring…
Website monitoring solutions play a significant role in maintaining the performance, availability, and reliability of the digital world. The insight provided by monitoring tools is helping online applications improve while delivering a positive end-user experience. Performance of an application has a direct impact on factors that define a successful business,…
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…
