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5 Performance Rules Every Ad Serving Company Must Follow
Yesterday I was a victim of SPoF or Single Point of Failure. When shopping for a new web cam, an unresponsive ad tag blocked my page from loading and interrupted my browsing. Ads are on everyone’s...
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What The World’s Worst DNA Mixup Teaches Us About Monitoring
The suspect’s DNA had been found at 40 crime scenes, linking her to burglaries, narcotics and six murders. She was Germany’s most-wanted serial killer with a $400,000 bounty on her head, yet no one...
View ArticleCatch(point)ing Up With Velocity New York 2014
Velocity NY has wrapped up, and it was a smashing success thanks to hosts O’Reilly Media, as well as all of the sponsors, speakers, and exhibitors (we’re especially fond of one in particular). But we...
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Effects of Back to School Sales on Holiday Shopping Season
The world of eCommerce is a never-ending string of challenges that must be met. As soon as one major sale is over, online retailers are already looking ahead to the next one. And from a DevOps...
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How to Test Your Site in October for Holiday Shopping Traffic
October is here, and most eCommerce sites have completed the code changes in preparation for the holiday shopping season, so now is the time to test their websites. Here is what some great companies...
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How Web Bot Detection Boosts Real User Monitoring Data
The following is a guest post from Ron Abisi, Director of Sales at Distil Networks. Catchpoint’s powerful and intuitive tools have streamlined the process for monitoring web performance in...
View ArticleWhen Measuring Performance Causes Performance Problems
Can you put the cork back in a champagne bottle after it’s been popped? Back in July, the DevOps world rejoiced when Apple finally built a Navigation Timing API into Safari, first in the beta release...
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Seven Steps to Maximize Desktop Speed
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now less than a month away, which means that eCommerce sites should be wrapping up their optimization techniques and testing their platforms in preparation for the...
View ArticleFive Steps to Maximize Mobile Web Speed
Yesterday, as a final step for preparing your eCommerce site for the influx of holiday shopping traffic, we offered a checklist of seven things to make sure you’ve done to maximize your desktop website...
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Would Obama’s Plan Mean the End of Unlimited Internet?
Net neutrality advocates learned on Monday morning that the most powerful man in the world is now their ally. Consumer ISPs, not so much. President Barack Obama officially weighed in for the first time...
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Houston, Citi Has a Problem
Ever type a URL into your browser’s navigation bar and omit the ‘www.’ prefix? Of course you have, because most sites are set up nowadays to make the ‘www.’ unnecessary for the end user. So on Monday...
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DoubleClick Outage Causes Serious Issues Across the Web
If you found yourself struggling to access one of your favorite sites this morning, there’s a good chance that DoubleClick was the culprit. The Google-owned adserver experienced a significant outage...
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How Synthetic Monitoring Can Get You Back Online
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” –Oscar Wilde There’s something to be said for recognizing a mistake and fixing it, which is exactly what Citibank has done with their website and...
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Lessons Learned from Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2014
All metrics based off of the performance data of Catchpoint’s customized list of Top 50 eCommerce sites. While many of us were stuffing ourselves full of turkey, cranberry sauce, and…stuffing on...
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UK Black Friday Performance Featured Heavy Sites and Long Load Times
With the recent crazy long weekend of shopping deals to be had both online and in store it has been a testing time for some of the UK’s Top 50 retailers. Black Friday and Cyber Monday came to the UK in...
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Improving Our Alerting System with PagerDuty
When your systems fail, being the first to know is imperative in order to get back up and running before your clients or customers are negatively impacted. But figuring out the best way to do so hasn’t...
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Improve Your Team’s Communication with Catchpoint’s Slack Integration
In the modern business environment, the ability to effectively communicate with colleagues both inside and outside of your department is a challenge with which companies of all sizes struggle every...
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Monitoring India eCommerce during the Great Online Shopping Festival
Seeing an opportunity to capitalize on a one-day online shopping bonanza the likes of the United States sees with “Cyber Monday” and China sees with “Singles Day,” Google India created the Great Online...
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2014 Year in Review: Catchpoint’s Top Ten Blog Posts
It was a big year for the Catchpoint blog. The 51 articles that we posted by over a dozen different authors throughout the year were both new highs for the company. Meanwhile, you the reader proved to...
View ArticleNew Year’s Resolution: Let’s Retake Performance
This article was originally published at PerfPlanet. Enough is enough! For too long, the DevOps community has been hamstrung by the demands of the business departments with whom we work. The obvious...
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