Web performance is not just about tools and methodologies. Effective web performance requires a culture that values and understands the importance of web performance to the business. Without a culture of web performance, any tools, technologies, and methodologies purchased to make things better could leave the company right where it was when it started, only with less money.

Gomez is a Contributing Member of the Apdex alliance and utilizes Apdex in conjunction with our Real User Measurement product, Actual XF. We see a lot of value in Apdex and are looking at ways to increase its presence in our products. Learn more about Apdex and its application performance metrics this week at a free webinar.

Recently, Gomez published a new report called: Best of the Web 2009. In it, we identified the best performing websites of 2009 in six different vertical industries. With response times that some companies can only dream of, some of the winner’s average page load ranged from 1.03 and 1.21 seconds. That’s fast! Watch our [...]

In my last post, I described how end-user experience has evolved over time and how I advise clients to look at performance dimensions in a similar sequence:

Availability
Response Time
Consistency

This week, I decided to review our July Gomez/dotMobi Mobile Web Experience Banking Benchmark results and compare them to our longstanding US Retail Banking Benchmark results  from the [...]

Today is a big day for Gomez – we’ve performed a hat trick.  We’ve

delivered our biggest platform-wide product release,
launched this blog and
revamped the entire Gomez Web site.

Many of our experts will be posting to this blog with observations and analysis about Internet performance, the multi-browser world we live in, the need to understand that “the [...]