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 [...]