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Double Rainbow Monitoring

The Double Rainbow video guy is shilling for Microsoft and the stats on online videos continue on a sky rocketing uptick. Thus spoketh DoubleRainbow guy “Its so beautiful, but what does it mean?” It means that the ying of online video is in a gigantic, exubertantly crazy growth phase and that the yang of video stream monitoring is nearby.

The 9 Levels of Website Performance Monitoring

So, is there a practical way to think about website performance monitoring and the services needed to monitor specific scenarios? Yes.
The following website performance monitoring selection guide, while no means universal, provides basic guidance in understanding what performance monitoring service best fits certain scenarios and requirements.

The 4 Principles of Building Website Trust using the Dotcom-Monitor® Uptime Meter

One of the key principles involved in creating a successful website is establishing trust with users. These four key principles demonstrate how a unique, third-party website uptime validation tool helps to create trust with online users.

Enhanced Waterfall Reports, Fullpage Monitoring, and Webpages of the Lycra-clad

To Add the Lycra Pic or Not to Add the Lycra Pic? The inherent tension between providing the users what they want (pictures of Lycra-clad triathletes) and maintaining fast response times on a rapidly changing site so users don’t leave is ongoing. Therefore, this is precisely the scenario where where ongoing full page download monitoring can make a difference between ensuring a fast and successful website like www.MinnesotaTriNews.com stays successful, and a website that is — as triathletes say when they run out of energy during a triathlon — “a death march