Monitoring tools for websites have been around for more than two decades now. They can tell you whether your site is up or down, how long it takes your webpage to load, even how long it takes to complete a multi-step transaction. All of this is done by monitoring the…
We’re just about eight weeks away from our first-ever user conference. Catchpoint Elevate is a zero-hype event focusing on the advancement of our users’ utilization of our platform so they can get the most out of their digital experience monitoring. Featuring speakers from some of the largest companies around like…
In the digital world, performance, availability, and reliability are key pillars of business that can impact revenue, reputation, and operational excellence. We often write about the impact that third-party services have on performance on our blog, but sometimes that impact is felt in our personal lives as well. Every year, we…
Toys R Us is no Black Friday rookie; the major retailer and their current hosting and CDN providers have completed 11 holiday seasons now. Between following some best practices, using static HTML strategically, and running on a high-capacity stack, they’ve pretty much got the online holiday process down. This year,…
This is a guest post from Cloudinary, a cloud-based image and video management solution. We are always looking for ways to help companies deliver digital experiences that will meet customers expectations in terms of content and performance. Tackling these 5 challenges is a good step towards delivering a top-notch digital…
In the past when the use of the word “developer” referred to the individuals who were writing code for the application and database. There then became a need to create a category to describe developers who write user facing code such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript. This led to the…
In a professional landscape where the third party vendors and tools that an organization uses have such a huge impact on their brand and their revenue, expertise in those tools is incredibly important. And that importance grows even more when it comes to highly technical tools such as Digital Experience…
This post was co-authored by Greg Rubin & Narangerel Bat-Ochir September is a critical month for online retailers. With one of the biggest shopping weekends of the year just a couple of months away, September is crunch time for ecommerce companies to wrap up optimization tasks before many enter a holiday…
We talk a lot about analyzing and responding to outages. The truth is, much of the advice we give comes from watching how our clients deal with performance issues. We recently got a chance to manage an issue of our own, so we wanted to document what we saw and…
Seconds matter. When it comes to the digital user experience, a couple of seconds separates winners and losers. Among the best-performing ecommerce websites, the gap is even smaller. Catchpoint’s Q1-2016 Ecommerce Web Performance Benchmark identified the quarter’s best-of-the-best, showing how fast the top sites in the US were and identifying…
