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 to $586.1 billion. But here’s the rub: The companies that are making money are those that have fast, responsive websites. Those with slow websites won’t be cashing...
Lessons learned from the Amazon Web Services outage
Moving to the cloud sounds great ... but what happens when that cloud goes down? After Amazon's recent outages, we look at some lessons learned to help prevent outages of this nature in the future.
2013 web app predictions from Akamai Edge
Last week a few of my colleagues and I flew out to Las Vegas to attend Akamai Edge 2012, Akamai's annual customer conference. Read more to get some of my thoughts and takeaways from the show.
Testing the cloud from above the clouds
Why stay grounded just to perform a load test? With an SaaS-based application living in the cloud, you're free to do your test from anywhere -- even flying at 30,000 feet.
Apica named one of the fastest growing technology companies
Great news! For the second year in a row, Apica has been ranked on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 as one of the fastest growing technology companies in the EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa). We’ve been working diligently over the past year to add new partners; expand our geographic footprint; deliver even more comprehensive cloud, web, and mobile …
2013: The year of application optimization for the device-driven Internet
For the past few years, our friends at VMblog.com have run an annual prediction series forecasting the trends most likely to drive adoption of cloud and virtualization technologies in the upcoming year. This is the second year in a row that they’ve invited me to contribute, and I thought long and hard about the assignment. After a deep gaze into …
Web performance strong on Cyber Monday, busiest online shopping day of 2012
Retailers might have started offering online holiday discounts earlier than in years past, but that didn’t seem to have much effect on retail activity or sales this Cyber Monday. According to IBM, Internet sales rose 30.3 percent yesterday, making it the biggest online shopping day ever. Online traffic for the day has not yet been reported, but the exact number …
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 …
New Amazon Web Services data center in Sydney added to Apica Agent Network
Earlier this week, Amazon added a brand new Amazon Web Services (AWS) Region to its Global Infrastructure. The Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region, as it is being called, offers important benefits to organizations operating in this area. Companies can run their cloud-based applications through the new AWS data center to reduce latency and other performance issues for local users without having …
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 …