Benchmarking: Comparing Web Application Performance
Poor website performance will drive customers to the competition. Today, 40% of consumers will wait no more than three seconds for a Web page to load before abandoning a site. Benchmarking is valuable tool in today’s competitive online marketplace because companies cannot efficiently improve web or mobile application performance without first having an understanding of previous performance levels... [Read more]
Is hardware really cheaper than having an application performance strategy?
Compuware’s Senior Product Manager Bryce Dunn’s recent blog post poses an interesting question: Is hardware really cheaper than having an application performance strategy? He offers that instead of hardware, what is needed is an application performance management strategy. Not simply buying a tool, but an overall approach to application performance which includes understanding the mission... [Read more]
2010 World Cup Top Performing Sports Books Sites
During the World Cup, website traffic from across the globe for to date has been the biggest sporting event on the Internet. The event featured a feast of football, some fancy footwork and a few controversial refereeing decisions. But how did some of leading sports books sites perform under increased visitor levels during the 2010 World Cup? During the course of the 2010 World Cup, Gomez tracked the... [Read more]
Mobile Web Shopping Experience is Key to Instore Experience
In a recent article for Mobile Marketer, it explained that retailers need to understand that the mobile Web can augment the in-store shopping experience as many consumers check and compare competitors’ products and prices as they actually peruse store aisles and contemplate purchases. Today, companies with the strongest mobile Web performance are shaping user expectations across all the websites... [Read more]
Key Considerations for Today’s Web Performance
I was reading a recent blog post from Joshua Bixby that offered the 16 Best Graphs of Velocity. According to Bixby, these graphs represent a snapshot of the current web performance landscape. This got me thinking about how web application delivery has changed over the past few years, and the management challenges that have been created. Web applications today are composite with services and content... [Read more]
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