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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]