SLA Management 101: How to Create a Meaningful Web Performance SLA
We explore the distinctions of “high-quality monitoring” and outline what to look for when employing monitoring as part of an SLA management strategy.
Website Performance and Image Compression Go Hand-in-Hand
Images account for more than half of a typical web page’s content and are often the biggest hindrance to ensuring optimal web performance and a pleasant user experience. Learn which method of reducing image size is best for the web, and what the difference is between Lossless vs Lossy image compression techniques.
Network Solutions Down… again | DNS and Email Outages
The outages continue for Network Solutions. Dotcom-Monitor is currently tracking a Network Solutions email deliverability issue due to email blacklisting, as well as a separate DNS issue that occurred earlier this year.
Shopping Cart Abandonment Rates Climb – User Experience Suffers
As the world’s consumers move to the web, the importance of user experience management increases. Shopping cart abandonment rates are at an all-time high, despite greater functionality and offerings of e-commerce sites. Learn how to combat growing abandonment rates and protect your online sales.
E-Commerce Market Revs Up while Website Speed Pumps the Brakes
Is there a new website speed standard? The gap between shopper expectations and e-retailers’ performance is expanding at an exponential rate as consumers identify an ideal load time at less than three seconds.
Airline Website Outage – Delta Website Goes Down
Delta website outage – customer frustrations run high as Delta Air Lines mobile app and booking website go down.
Website Uptime Woes – Is Your E-Commerce Site Ready for the Holidays?
With one in four consumers abandoning your website if it takes more than four seconds to load, this year’s holiday season has to be all about website uptime, performance and the end user experience.
Getting Acquainted with the 21st Century E-Commerce Customer
From expecting your website to load in milliseconds to constantly judging your website aesthetics, today’s 21st century e-commerce customers have exceedingly high expectations and it’s up to you to have the right website monitoring solution in place to manage end user experience and address these demands.
Gain a Holistic View of Your Website with Synthetic Monitoring
Also known as real-user monitoring, passive monitoring refers to the process of capturing traffic from a network to determine what went wrong with a website or Web application after problems have occurred. Synthetic monitoring, on the other hand, provides webmasters with pertinent information to guarantee seamless server monitoring and web application uptime before problems impact a large number of site visitors. Read on to learn more about the differences between Synthetic and Passive website monitoring, and which solution is right for your business.
Keep the Stream Flowing – Streaming Video Monitoring
With the advent of video streaming comes a rise in performance problems, including pixilation, buffering, and latency. Therefore, the importance of keeping the stream flowing has never been more crucial; every second of delayed video load time increases the likelihood that your target market will go elsewhere for the content.
Website Monitoring Alerts – Advanced Configuration Capabilities
While many traditional website monitoring solutions offer alerts based on preferred device (think e-mail, phone or SMS), they lack robust customization like group alerting or alert escalation. Dotcom-Monitor’s industry leading alerting system offers fully customizable templates for each member of an alert group, enabling each team member to receive tailored messages based on their role and need for error diagnostic information. Providing comprehensive customization of group alerts is just one small way that Dotcom-Monitor maintains its competitive edge.
Can Your Business Survive a Website Outage? The True Cost of Downtime.
What is the true cost of a website outage? Today’s digital economy operations require round-the-clock uptime as the amount of revenue generated by e-businesses is growing at a phenomenal rate. Consider the following…