Friday, September 3rd, 2010

how did some of leading sports books sites perform under increased visitor levels during the 2010 World Cup?

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?

YouTube videos explaining web site performance

I recently attended The Ajax Experience 2009 Conference right in our backyard in Boston, where I co-presented to a packed room with our CTO Imad Mouline in a session called “Web Compatibility and Performance Testing in a Multi-Browser World.” These are some of the key takeaways.

Hello, I’m Imad Mouline, CTO of Gomez and like Eric, I’m very excited and proud of last week’s Platform Summer Release, especially the positive feedback we’ve been receiving from customers and the industry.
I’ll be a frequent voice here on the Gomez Blog and I’m looking forward to sharing my observations about the world of Web [...]

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 [...]