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.

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.

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 [...]

Okay, so I’m not much of a handyman. I enjoy tinkering in the woodshop, but my accomplishments are more likely to include bending some perfectly good nails, gluing my hand to a tabletop, and starting a small fire. As much as I admire the work of master carpenters, I’m just not at that level. (Get [...]

How popular is the mobile Web? Well, Facebook grew from 20 million to 65 million mobile users in eight months. And people are doing more than just updating their status and checking on their friends. They are checking their bank balances and then spending what’s left in their bank accounts, all from mobile devices.
Over the [...]

I’m not a big candy guy, but there’s one chocolate treat I can’t pass up: the popular HERSHEY’S KISSES. On the off chance that you are reading this post from the comforts of a small cave, I should explain that KISSES are bite-sized, foil-wrapped milk chocolate candies. I’ve proven on several occasions that I can [...]

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 [...]