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.

Strategic companies who truly understand the value of the web to their business have a fully integrated business model. This makes for good business, but it also increases the complexity and priority associated with Web performance. If a Web site performed poorly in 2006, the primary effect was a decline in online sales. But in 2010, a poor Web performance and experience can directly affect the results for the offline business channels, too.

How can you seize control of your site to ensure consistent quality with so many browsers and browser versions to master, and so many variables in their performance? Success depends on having the right perspective, the right focus and the right execution discussed in this entry.

Gomez President, Jaime Ellertson, featured guest on NECN’s “This Week In Business”. He reviews how Gomez, the web performance division of Compuware, monitors some of the world’s top websites.

As retailers ramp up for the upcoming 2010 online holiday shopping season, they need to be concerned with web performance and its impact on customer satisfaction. There are several key questions retailers need to consider, prioritize, and address to ensure they deliver exceptional website performance.

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.

How do you make sure your web applications render and perform well across all of the browsers used by your audience? Test them. Find three major categories of testing across browsers as well as detailed resources in this blog entry.

Users should have the same web experience no matter what browser they use. The only way to ensure that your web and mobile sites render and function optimally across browsers is to test with tests like the Gomez Multi-Browser Instant Test.

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.