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The Hidden Effects of Mobilegeddon on Desktop Sites
When Google announced their new Mobilegeddon guidelines – a series of mobile-friendly optimization requirements that was supposed to affect websites’ mobile search rankings on Google – the natural...
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Why You Should Require Anycast DNS
This is the fourth post in our DNS series. For parts 1-3, click the links below: DNS Lookup: How a Domain Name is Translated to an IP Address Dissecting DNS Communications In the World of DNS, Cache is...
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Congratulations to Dynatrace-Keynote, But Please Get Your Facts Straight
The web performance monitoring community is a special niche of the larger IT industry; it’s undoubtedly a small world. It’s just not as small as Dynatrace and Keynote apparently believe it to be. After...
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What is DevOps, Anyway?
DevOps has quickly become the most over-used, ambiguous term in IT. It’s being used to reference everything from job titles to technology practices, but the truth is that DevOps is more of a culture...
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United Exhibits Need for Monitoring and Failure Response Strategies
Not to be outdone by rival American Airlines, today United showed that they’re just as capable of stranding passengers due to IT failures. Citing what they called a “network connectivity issue” and...
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Sorting Through the Wreckage of Last Week’s Outages
Every now and then, when you step back and consider how reliant our society has become on online systems, it can really blow your mind. When you do it because those systems seem to be crashing all...
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Tracking the Business Impact of Performance with RUM Data
Media sites and the teams that are tasked with developing and maintaining them face a unique set of challenges. Much like all IT Ops and Development teams, they need to be concerned with consistent...
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Enhancing Catchpoint’s Alerting System with VictorOps
When systems fail, it’s imperative to not only have the right data as it pertains to the problem, but it is also important to have the proper tools to investigate the problem, and to communicate the...
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TCP Flags and What They Mean
So you’re reviewing a packet capture and you come across the TCP headers with the URG or PSH flags set. Have you ever wondered what they mean? Or what they do? Or what they’re supposed to do? Let’s...
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Aligning Web Performance Goals with Business Initiatives
The following post originally appeared as a guest byline on Multichannel Merchant. Ever since the internet and eCommerce websites were created, the needs of the end users have been at the forefront of...
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How to Pick the Right CDN Provider
In order to deliver a complete web experience to your users, it’s important to utilize the services of a reliable Content Delivery Network. The basic promise of the traditional CDN product is to...
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Politics and Performance: The First Republican Primary Debate
Though much of the hoopla from last Thursday’s Republican Primary debate has died down, pollsters and talking heads are still delving into the aftermath of the candidates’ performances and how it might...
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Clear Skies Ahead: Explaining and Contextualizing Apdex Values
Partly cloudy with scattered showers. Apdex is like a basic weather report; it provides a general overview of current conditions, but it doesn’t tell you how many people are standing out in the rain....
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The Importance of Monitoring Consumer ISPs
At their heart, web performance monitoring companies have a basic goal: to provide their customers with the most comprehensive and accurate look possible into the health of their online systems. This...
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Apple Leading the Way in the Adoption of IPv6
This article originally appeared on Mattias Geniar’s personal blog. This is pretty exciting news for the adoption of IPv6. In June, Apple announced that all iOS9 apps need to be “IPv6 compatible.”...
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Should Your Domain Include WWW?
We operate in an industry where most of the people who work in development, engineering, IT Operations, etc. optimize their sites to death, trying to squeeze every millisecond out of their load times....
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Back to School Performance Results and Preparing for Black Friday
Back to School sales are more than just a harbinger of doom for children and a shining beacon of light for parents who can’t wait to get them back out of the house. They also serve as a valuable...
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Ad-Blocking on Apple iOS9: Valuing the End User Experience
A while back, we covered how the abundance of third party tags can impact site performance and some best practices for managing the third parties on your site for ensuring the best overall end user...
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Are You A DevOps Master? Prove It!
A little over five months ago, we turned the DevOps world on its head by turning a bunch of mild-mannered engineers and other web performance experts into ravenous, glory-seeking fiends who thought...
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Politics and Performance: Trump Still Winning in Both Areas
The last time we looked in on the Republican Primary candidates’ websites, the initial goal was to see if the first debate resulted in any performance snafus due to increased traffic. Obviously every...
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