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…
Awesome Geek Tattoos – 40 of the Best Nerd Tattoos Ever!
Presenting: 40 of the most awesome geek tattoos. Tribute to those cool nerds who have gone the extra mile in demonstrating their love for all things geeky.
It’s 2am: Do You Know What Your Network is Doing?
As a network engineer, your job is to ensure neither money, nor your company’s reputation is left on the table. With proper network monitoring software in place, you can receive real-time alerts about the performance of your network, meaning you will never come to work surprised.
Network Monitoring 101: Devices vs Tasks
Two crucial network monitoring functions – Devices and Tasks – work together to keep close tabs on your network performance. Learn the difference between monitoring Devices and monitoring Tasks and how each is an ongoing system of maintenance that is constantly deployed to prevent individual target failures.
Help! My Webpage is Too Slow – Image Optimization for Website Performance
Is your website loading like it has a piano on its back? Learn how bulky images and other media may be to blame, and how you can regain your website speed with simple tools for image optimization and website performance analysis.
Amazon Down! The Retailer Giant Website Goes Offline
Amazon Down! – Dotcom-Monitor is tracking an Amazon.com website outage that started at approximately 1:55pm CDT August 19, 2013. To test the current status of Amazon click here.
New York Times Website Outage – NYTimes.com Website Down
New York Times Website Down – The New York Times online publication NYTimes.com suffered a website outage late Wednesday morning, Aug. 13, 2013.
Why Your Website is Burning Down and You Don’t Know It Yet
Website load times are going up and America’s attention span is decreasing. Your company website is slowly burning down and you’re losing money.
