Waterfall Chart: Data Visualization for Web Performance Analysis
A waterfall chart, a form of data visualization that maps the cumulative effect of sequentially introduced values, can help. When tracking Web performance, a waterfall chart can help determine how long it takes for each action between the Web server and the user when a user accesses a website. This data can help website administrators understand how individual elements of a their sites are impacting performance.
Three Tips to Improve the Performance of Responsive Web Design
Responsive Web Design–a solution that delivers a consistent experience across different screen resolutions—is picking up significant steam as the standard method by which websites are being designed. Let’s look at three ways website performance can be improved using this method:
2014 Starts with Added Value at Dotcom-Monitor – New Feature Updates
Release 9 Notes – Functionality and Feature Updates. Dotcom-Monitor is continuing to add functionality that increases performance, adds flexibility, and gives the user more control over their monitoring.
New Release: Mobile Browser Monitoring Platform
As the wave of global web traffic accessed by mobile devices has begun to surge, Dotcom-Monitor has rolled out its mobile browser monitoring platform.
Worldwide Monitoring Shows CNN Website Down
Dotcom-Monitor is tracking a CNN website outage on Feb. 11, 2014. Testing using worldwide locations indicated an inability to connect to the CNN server and load the website.
Updates to the Dotcom-Monitor DNS Server Monitoring Platform
The Dotcom-Monitor DNS Server Monitoring platform has been updated to further ensure that your DNS services are working, resolving properly, and responding quickly.
Time to Interact: A New Metric for Measuring User Experience
A new performance metric has come on the scene that is less about measuring the actual time it takes for an entire page to load and more about measuring how long it takes for the page to deliver the experience the website visitor is seeking. Time to Interact (TTI) pinpoints the most critical moment in a page load—the moment the page’s primary interactive content is displayed and becomes interactive –from the end user’s perspective. Proponents say this is the new metric to watch because users do not need to wait until the entire page loads to begin to interact with the site. Ideally their experience with a website using TTI as an indicator would be better than using TTL (Time to Load).
New Image Formats Aim to Combat Website Bloat
Not much progress in supporting image formats has been made since the standard JPEG, GIF and PNG formats were brought to market more than 15 years ago. The reason is simple: Supporting new image formats across different browser types is hard. However, two new image formats have come on the scene in the last few years and have recently started to gain traction as a way to optimize images: WebP (put forth by Google) and JPEG XR (backed by Microsoft).
DNS Resolution Options – DNS Monitoring Functionality and Feature Updates
DNS Monitoring Functionality and Feature Updates. The first of several functionality and feature updates for 2014 have been made to Dotcom-Monitor.
Websites Grow Rapidly While Performance Expectations Stay the Same
The web is trending bigger in absolute terms of size, requests and content. User expectations are, however, trending in equal measure towards faster speeds.
Bluehost Down Again – Worldwide Bluehost Network Outage
December 31, 2013 – Dotcom-Monitor has been tracking a Bluehost outage, first detected Tuesday afternoon at approximately 12:30pm CST. Dotcom-Monitor’s worldwide network has detected a consistent outage from all 20 global monitoring locations.
Dotcom-Monitor Web Performance Blog: Top 5 Most Read Posts of 2013
At years end we like to bring you a roundup of the very best of the Dotcom-Monitor web performance blog. Here are our top 5 most read blog posts of 2013…
