Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Watch our latest edition to the GomezWebPerformance YouTube channel!
It’s a 2-minute video: The Gomez Platform: Web Performance Management to Ensure Positive User Experience.

Learn more about Web Performance as a business issue on our Website.

Imad Mouline’s keynote speech from the Velocity Web Performance Conference outlines key points for developers looking to understand the unique performance advantages that can be exploited when working in the cloud.

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.

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?

Technology companies have done an outstanding job of adding new features and functionality to their products that are designed to increase the potential value to the customer. Unfortunately, those customers are busy. They have many business and IT challenges that prevent them from keeping up with all these new features and functionality. What happens? Customers don’t’ consume the products properly and don’t get the value that companies promise. This is where professional services comes in.

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 [...]

Today marks the general availability of our Gomez Platform Winter 2010 release.
You may be asking “Is it really still winter?”  Well, here in chilly New England the answer is YES. The Gomez team has been locked inside by our virtual fire places, building major enhancements to the entire Gomez Platform. Over the last few [...]