6 Key Factors to Consider in Your APM Strategy
Originally featured as a slideshow presentation on ITBusinessEdge.com. The dynamic nature of IT Ops requires its professionals to be incredibly agile. If your systems aren’t as updated as the industry,...
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5 Tips to Get the Most out of Your Third Parties
One of the fundamental truths about web performance and user experience is that maintaining consistently excellent levels of both becomes more and more challenging as the complexity of a website...
View ArticleAs Ad Blocking Puts A Premium On Web Performance, Ad Servers And Optimization...
Originally featured as a bylined article on AdExchanger.com Rather than pulling back, sites dependent on online advertising are being forced to find ways to circumvent the ad blocking challenge, on...
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Faster-as-a-Service: Speed is Now Your Most Important Feature
Just ask VC Fred Wilson. He says, “Speed is more than a feature. Speed is the most important feature. If your application is slow, people won’t use it.” So if you’ve been wondering why speed has...
View Article5 Reasons Retailers are Plagued by Abandoned Carts
It’s not always your fault. Across the eCommerce spectrum shoppers abandon most of their carts, ditching as often as 80% of the time. Mobile shoppers are especially fickle. As the retail world...
View ArticleWeb Performance in China is Different
One topic that is almost always on the agenda during customer meetings these days is the performance (or lack thereof) of websites in China. The companies that I’m meeting with are not newcomers in the...
View ArticleHow a SaaS Provider Can Take Advantage of OnPrem Agent
We’ve talked before in this space about how Catchpoint’s OnPrem Agent can bring the power of Catchpoint’s Synthetic Monitoring to anywhere you want it. We’ve also talked about the importance of service...
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Using Images to Take Down Your Site Performance
Continuing the effort of ruining your customer experience. In my last blog, I gave you five simple steps to slow down your site and ruin your customer experience. One of those steps involved images;...
View ArticleHas SaaS Become Mission Critical for You?
Software as a Service has been around for a while. In its early years—late 1990s-early 2000s—it was mostly aimed at individual and departmental use, but in more recent years SaaS has been deployed at...
View ArticleUnparalleled Insight into Catchpoint: Growing Fast, Going Global
Originally written and published by Stony Brook University Department of Computer Science. In today’s ever-expanding world of technology, the ability to interact in global enterprise via online or...
View ArticleA Look Back at Our First Digital Performance Summit in India
Still jet-lagged, I wanted to capture my experience from a recent trip to Bangalore while it’s still fresh in my mind. We opened a Catchpoint office in Bangalore about two years ago, initially with a...
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Digital Performance in India: An Inside Perspective
As our CEO Mehdi Daoudi wrote about last week, we hosted our first Digital Performance Summit in Bangalore on April 6. The event was focused on discussing some of the challenges the industry faces in...
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Combining Catchpoint with OpenTSDB for Global Visibility and Alerting
The article below was originally written and published by NS1, a Catchpoint customer and integration partner. At NS1, we’re big fans of Catchpoint, the performance monitoring company who’s also one of...
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Web Performance Implodes as Leicester City Wins Premier League
For those of you who don’t follow football (the real one), Leicester City won the 2015/16 Premier League title in one of the most remarkable underdog triumphs in sporting history. This was the club’s...
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Web Performance Premier League Standings
At Catchpoint, we take two things very seriously: football (the original), and web performance. Following Leicester City’s remarkable win to clinch the Premier League title on Sunday, we decided to...
View ArticleIs Your APM Strategy Broken: Closing the EUM Gap
As the modern application landscape has exploded alongside the Internet over the last two decades, so have the tools to monitor and manage the performance and availability of those applications. But...
View ArticleApp Rage and Lessons from Salesforce.com’s Outage
App rage is real. It’s what we feel when a cloud service we depend on is slow or unavailable, as SFDC was yesterday morning. It’s also what a SaaS provider feels when customers vent their frustrations...
View ArticleTarget, Apple, Walgreens Top Site Speed Rankings: Latest Benchmark
Seconds matter. When it comes to the digital user experience, a couple of seconds separates winners and losers. Among the best-performing ecommerce websites, the gap is even smaller. Catchpoint’s...
View ArticleConnecting the Dots at Gartner ITOSS
Earlier this month, I had the chance to spend a couple of days at the Gartner IT Operations, Strategies & Solutions conference in National Harbor, Md. The conference was a mix of pep talks, how-to...
View ArticleCapacity Matters (Perhaps More Than You Think)
A very wise man in a movie once put it, “It’s good for a man to know his limitations.” When it comes to a computer system, it’s essential. Understanding your capacity is a healthy part of running a...
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