Category: Website Performance News

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Performance Tech Tips

The Importance of Monitoring SSL Certificates

Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL, is a global security standard technology that is being adopted by a number of different organizations across the globe. Essentially, SSLs are small data files containing a cryptographic key. This key carries important information about the organization using it. Around 600,000 websites have installed SSL

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Performance Tech Tips

The Great Firewall of China: Obstacles to Monitoring Performance

Every year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology seeks to improve the Great Firewall’s filtering and blocking techniques and enhance its algorithm. There are three state-owned ISP providers, China Unicom, China Telecom, and China Mobile, that control internet in China. The censorship and monitoring of internet have evolved from

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Page Load Speed

How You Lose Money on Your Website Without Even Knowing It

Having a functional and operative website is a critical asset. A well-optimized and smart website can act as a revenue generating machine.  The idea is to attract more visitors for your site, increase web page traffic, and then make sales or conversions on the main page. There is, however, a

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Web App Functionality

Why Synthetic Monitoring is a Must for SaaS-based Solutions

Bounded to service level agreements (SLAs), vendors must monitor performance of their SaaS-based solutions for an optimal user experience. Monitoring performance of a SaaS-based solutions is a challenge since it varies extensively across user locations and geographies. These applications and their content need to travel a rigorous path of geography-specific

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Web App Functionality

Challenges and Best Practices for Monitoring SaaS-based Businesses

SaaS-based businesses are on the rise more than ever.  Old businesses are rushing to turn their legacy software into SaaS-based solutions and new businesses are popping up offering SaaS-based solutions to everything imaginable.  SaaS-based solutions are made up of multi-layered complex architecture with both internal and external components that require

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Web App Functionality

5 Best Practices for Ensuring Performance of Your SaaS Business

From the time that SaaS businesses were an emerging trend in the internet space, to them becoming its omnipresent component, the virtual world has witnessed a massive transition in a very short span. The SaaS market is expected to rise to $220 billion by 2022 from $134 billion in 2018,

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Website Performance News

Best Practices to Minimize Website Downtime

When a customer notifies you that your website is down, it has far more severe consequences than just embarrassment. Website downtime can mean loss of money, reputation, credibility and in a lot of cases, the overall feeling of security of your customers. As a survey report from Gartner showed website

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Performance Tech Tips

Stack Trace Monitoring: Gaps in Measuring the User Experience

Our digital world is evolving and advancing at an unimaginable pace – and so are the expectations of end users.  Momentum is everything in today’s united world, and having a poor performing website or application will likely result in the confidence of your products and services.  And worse yet, any

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CDN Edge Servers
Page Load Speed

Pre-Cache CDN Edge Servers with Synthetic Monitoring

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a collection of distributed nodes, called edge servers, connected to the same origin servers and placed local to the users’ location. If you are using a CDN, your website content is delivered to the user from the nearest edge server to their location.  Without

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