Tag: website performance monitoring

black friday
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Website Monitoring for Black Friday and Cyber Monday: Best Practices

As Black Friday and Cyber Monday approach, eCommerce websites brace themselves for the year’s highest traffic. These retail-heavy events are prime opportunities for businesses to maximize their sales, but they also bring intense pressure on websites to perform at their peak. When it comes to online shopping, even a few

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WordPress vs. WP Engine: Protect Your Sites

Recently, a public dispute erupted between WordPress and WP Engine, one of the most popular managed WordPress hosting platforms. The disagreement centers around WP Engine’s use of the WordPress brand, licensing concerns, and differing views on managing the open-source platform. This fallout could impact WP Engine customers especially those who

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How to Use Google PageSpeed Insights

Website speed is super important and not just for keeping visitors happy, but also for doing well in search engine rankings. That’s where Google PageSpeed Insights comes into play. It’s a free powerful tool that helps you check how your website performs and gives you easy-to-follow tips for making it

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IPv6 Requires a New Approach to Website Monitoring

Dotcom-Monitor has established a Native IPv6 Monitoring Bureau dedicated to effective end-to-end IPv6 website performance monitoring. Dotcom-Monitor tests for performance and accessibility and can also simulate real user activities such as validating text and images as well as portal logins and shopping cart functionality.

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Top 10 Web Performance Blog Posts of 2012

As we at Dotcom-Monitor are back at it after the holidays, we thought it would be interesting to see which blog posts over the past year have sparked the most interest. See our Top 10 Web Performance Blog Posts of 2012.

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Website Performance Test – Testing Olympic Game 2012 Websites [Infographic]

Website Performance Test

As one of the world’s most important sporting events the Olympic Games attract millions of people from around the world. The mass media websites that cover the Games must be able to work under unprecedented loads of traffic. The Dotcom-Monitor team decided to take the opportunity to run a website performance test analyzing how the most powerful mass media websites respond to this massive influx of website visitors during the Olympic Games.

We setup website performance monitoring using two Dotcom-Monitor solutions: ServerView and BrowserView Platforms.

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