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Black Friday & Cyber Monday – 2013 – The results are in!
This article is work in progress as we collect more data. Keep checking. Date: November 28 2013 from 00:00 EDT to November 29 2013 23:59:00 EDT Desktop Web We monitored the web performance of the...
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Healthcare.gov failing again?! Is There a Web Perf Doctor in the House?
We’re at the end of the busiest online shopping weekend of the year, Black Friday to Cyber Monday. All eyes are on the major ecommerce websites as they drop their prices and handle millions of users...
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Web Performance is not an IT thing only!
“Why is Web Performance important enough to justify a business?” This is a question I was asked by a friend sitting at a holiday meal last week, and one myself and others in the Web Performance...
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There’s No Avoiding Network Latency on 4G
Behind every device connected to the internet there is an underlying network, which dictates the route data packets travel. When an end user goes to www.google.com from his smartphone, the physical...
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Chrome 15 Browser Takes the Lead in November – Rules At Home
According to StatCounter’s final data for the month of November, Chrome 15 (23.6%) fought all the way to the top in the last week and squeaked by IE8 as the world’s most popular browser (23.5%)! Last...
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WPO Resolution for 2012
As I look back at the state of 2011 web operations, the thing that impressed me the most was the success of the Web Performance Optimization (WPO) movement. Comparing it to recent world events, I...
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The Biggest Misconception about Google Page Speed
In my conversations with customers and prospects we often talk about one of the biggest IT problems: “How can we make the website faster for end users”. Obviously Web Performance Optimization (WPO)...
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Catchpoint’s Top Ten Web Performance Insights for 2011
As we are closing 2011, take a look at our most popular and insightful blog posts: A New Blind Spot for Web Performance Tools (03/02/2011): We cover a new monitoring blind spot with Internet Explorer...
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Holiday Shopping 2011: State of Retail Web Performance
According to ComsScore, Retail online spending for the entire November – December 2011 holiday season touched $37.2 Billion, an increase of 15% versus last year. In a perfect world these numbers look...
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Observations of 3rd Party Providers and CDNs on Top Retail Sites
While monitoring the performance of the Internet Retailer Top 50 Retailers this past Holiday Season, we also tracked what third party vendors and CDNs were utilized and measured their impact on each...
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When DNS Sneezes, Web Speed Catches a Cold
For our frequent readers, it is no surprise that we firmly believe DNS has a huge impact on Performance. One of the biggest challenges with DNS is understanding what impact various DNS issues can have...
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Beware of Blind Spots in Browser Network Capture Tools
We all know how dangerous blind spots are when driving. Before changing lanes or making a turn, you check your mirror and turn your head to ensure there is no car in your blind spot. Make a decision...
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First Catchpoint Release for 2012
What better way to start 2012 than with a big product release! Our engineering team completed over 100 user stories. Here are three key features that were released and are a first in a synthetic...
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Catchpoint February 2012 Release
February came and went so fast we forgot to give you a quick update on what we have been up to! Empowering Data Analysis Our in house NoSQL/In-Memory reporting platform allows customers to run...
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Performance as Craft!
Last week my good friend Jonathan Klein at Etsy published a blog about the latest performance achievements at Etsy. I have always been a big fan of Etsy’s IT team, they are very transparent about...
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Today’s blog is a repost from Peter McLachlan, Chief Architect at Mobify. The article originally appeared on Mobify’s blog on October 30, 2012. In this post we’ll review the results of a real-world...
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