Learn why it’s important to test your website performance against high volume traffic and understand the impact of load on your end user’s experience. Featuring Gomez Reality Load product.

eBusiness marketing and IT professionals intuitively know that Web performance is a business issue and are always interested in concrete evidence of the impact of performance on the bottom line. Many companies invest heavily in improving the speed of their websites, as studies repeatedly show that faster websites generate more revenue. Don’t take our word for it–examples from Bing, Google, and Yahoo! along with words from Fred Wilson are included here to the same effect.

The increase in browser diversity creates major challenges for website teams because so many of the interactions within today’s complex Web and mobile sites are executed on the client-side, where variations in browser performance and rendering have a major influence on end-user experience. How fast is your website across geographies?

There is no doubt that cloud computing will be well suited to some key enterprise and e-commerce applications. Companies considering cloud computing for customer-facing Web applications must look beyond the potential for cost savings and scalability and evaluate how cloud adoption will affect the end-user experience.

Sounds crazy, right? But have you ever thought about the business impact if your site performs poorly during peak traffic periods?  We wondered about this and recently conducted a market research study based on 1500 consumers’ experiences with retail, financial services and travel sites during 2009 peak traffic periods.
For starters, we wondered if shoppers have the [...]

One of the surprising trends that I uncovered is that, while customers understood the need to monitor their entire Web application from the end-users’ perspective, they didn’t always translate and transfer that belief to the load testing world.

Greetings and salutations! I’m Matt Poepsel, VP of Performance Strategies for Gomez. I’ve been in the web application performance business for more than 10 years, and I’ve had the distinct pleasure of analyzing 1,000+ web applications. I can’t say that I’ve seen it all (since the web is constantly evolving), but I’ve seen quite a [...]

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 [...]