Benchmarking is valuable tool in today’s competitive online marketplace because companies cannot efficiently improve web or mobile application performance without having an understanding of performance in comparison to key competitors and industry leaders.

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.

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]