Category Archive for: ‘Web’
Record Black Friday online spending no match for retail website performance
Thanksgiving weekend: the truest test of website preparation and performance an online retailer can expect to encounter. It is the culmination of months of strategizing and testing, of not only determining the most jaw-dropping deals, but of ensuring one’s web infrastructure is strong enough to withstand the barrage of shoppers lined up behind their monitors, index fingers poised, ready to …
5 reasons your website might slow down this holiday season (or anytime)
The National Retail Federation (NRF) predicts that this year’s holiday sales will increase 4.1 percent to $586.1 billion. But here’s a wrinkle in the data that nobody really records: The companies that are making money are those that have fast, responsive websites. Companies with slow websites won’t be cashing in this season. In fact, a Kissmetrics report on shopping cart …
Parallel load testing with Apica ProxySniffer 5.0: A Quick Tip video
A few weeks ago we shared with you the new features in Apica ProxySniffer 5.0, but we don’t want to just tell you about them. We want to show you! Today’s Quick Tip video will look at Apica ProxySniffer 5.0′s LoadTest integration and parallel testing with multithreading, and show you how to utilize these features within your performance testing. Now give …
3 web performance mistakes and how to avoid them
Could you imagine NASA sending a rocket into space without testing it first? What about a racing team putting a brand new car on the track without taking it for a few laps to test the handling and stability? It seems to me that testing is inherent in every technical field — except for website development that is. Too often …
The impact of the election on Twitter’s web performance
The Twitter Election. That’s what everyone’s been calling it. Twitter has ushered in a whole new era of politics. The 2012 presidential race is the first in which voters could interact directly with the candidates (if not, their spokespeople); the first in which candidate triumphs and blunders were relived and exploited repeatedly in the days and weeks leading up to …
Load testing like a developer
Creating highly targeted load tests for your web server doesn’t have to be complicated. And it won’t be, at least not if you know what to look for. The secret is to approach a load test with the mind of a developer. You’re not going to run a test just to punish your web server. You’re trying to gather valuable …
Quick Tip Video: AppDynamics and Google Analytics Integration
Today’s Quick Tip video will highlight one of the most exciting features of the Apica WebPerformance portal: AppDynamics and Google Analytics integration. This new functionality enables you to correlate and compare live data from all three platforms directly in the WebPerformance portal. The result is a better understanding of how external factors (for example, website traffic or user behavior) affects …