You wake up, make coffee, sit down by the computer and start reading your favorite web sites. You fire up your favorite browser and type www.site.com on the address bar, hit enter and continue sipping on that coffee. You wait for the page to load, sipping some more coffee –…
I am often asked by customers and prospects: “What should we be monitoring?” This is a billion dollar question and it seems like everyone has their own answers. I have seen different approaches, some better than others. In this blog post I want to share with you what I think…
At Catchpoint, we work very closely with our clients and love hearing how they use the system and how it helps them. Recently we heard from Kelsey at WhippleHill Communications. Some background: We started working with Whipplehill back in early October. Besides providing Web Performance Monitoring, we also provided one on one Web…
Our October release just hit the wire. This one was packed with some really cool features based on feedback from customers and prospects. Here are some feature highlights: Page Speed score: Catchpoint will calculate Page Speed score for every test run. Users will be able to chart the Page Speed score in the…
Today is an important day for the web community, Zero Load launched the 1st Web Performance Optimization contest. For the first time web speed enthusiasts will compete in building the fastest site based on a set of tangible criteria. We applaud the event, the organizers and the entire philosophy behind this event and…
No one likes slow websites or websites that malfunction. Today, time is very valuable – and no user wants to be frustrated trying to access a website. We all have better things to do than wait for a webpage to load or keep hitting the reload button on the browser…
Today, performance monitoring involves monitoring the performance, reliability, and availability of every object on the website, including third party vendors, as any of these objects can cause performance problems to the page. Almost every web performance monitoring tool out there will alert on failures of such objects, including HTTP errors…
In 1999, when tasked to setup an organization dedicated to performance, monitoring, site reliability…, I looked for guidance, books, gurus, mentors… there were none. But I did end up finding this amazing quote from Rudyard Kipling: “I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew);Their names are What…
Slow web performance is the new downtime – it’s the silent killer to an online brand. In my experience, prior to 2005, companies worried about uptime, as everyone was being measured on uptime and how many 9s they could achieve. Since then, a lot has changed, better and cheaper hardware,…
I was impressed yesterday by how Facebook dealt with their first outage in 4 years. They kept everyone informed via twitter, blog and their status page. I think they were transparent to some degree about the issue. More companies need to do this. My Hat to you Facebook! Here is…
