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?

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 [...]

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.

In my last post, I described how end-user experience has evolved over time and how I advise clients to look at performance dimensions in a similar sequence:

Availability
Response Time
Consistency

This week, I decided to review our July Gomez/dotMobi Mobile Web Experience Banking Benchmark results and compare them to our longstanding US Retail Banking Benchmark results  from the [...]

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 [...]