Category: Performance Tech Tips

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Performance Tech Tips

Stack Trace Monitoring: Gaps in Measuring the User Experience

Stack trace monitoring is an essential part of debugging and application performance monitoring. It helps developers quickly identify errors and understand the sequence of code execution that led to a problem. However, while stack trace monitoring can be highly beneficial in isolating technical issues, it often falls short when it

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Web App Functionality

Why Traditional Monitoring Isn’t Enough for Modern Web Applications

As web applications become more dynamic and complex, traditional monitoring tools often fall short of providing the insights needed to ensure top-notch performance. Modern web applications rely on numerous interconnected systems and have unique demands, making it essential to adopt monitoring solutions designed to handle their complexity. This post explores

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Performance Tech Tips

Network Throttling: Monitor the User Experience

Network Throttling When it comes to monitoring web application performance, not only is it necessary emulate user actions, but also network conditions of end-user devices. Network throttling allows you to control connection speeds to better match the experience of real users, allowing you to see web application behavior in specific

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Network Services Monitoring

How to Do a Ping Test

No computer is an island. We connect to so many different servers throughout the day that we don’t even think about it. Until we can’t connect. Or the connection lags so much that you start to consider going offline for a while (gasp!). Maybe you could use a break, but

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Page Load Speed

Is Your Website Mobile Friendly? The Mobile Speed Test

So why do you want to know if your website is mobile friendly? Most likely it is because you have heard about last year’s announcement from google over at google webmaster central. It turns out that Google has updated their algorithm to significantly increase the weight of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. That’s right, significantly! So, optimizing your site for mobile is the way of the future!

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Performance Tech Tips

IPv6 Test vs IPv4: Testing Errors & Resolution Issues

Take a look at the difference between how a page (msnbc.com) loads from an IPv6-Only monitoring location and a monitoring location with native IPv6 or 6to4 translation. You may want to think about running an IPv6 test on your own websites after seeing these results.

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Dotcom-Monitor News

Free Website Testing Tools » Dotcom-Tools.com

Dotcom-Monitor has released a suite of free website testing tools at www.dotcom-tools.com. The Dotcom-Monitor website testing tools allow you to perform a variety of tests on the performance of your own servers from external locations around the world. Perform Free Website Tests Some of the Tests you can perform include:

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How To Monitor Voice Connectivity – Inbound Line & SIP Monitoring

Voice Connectivity is Critical. Your phone systems have gone down and you are unable to communicate with your customers. After several hours of troubleshooting you have managed to get the services up again but what do you do now? Whether you utilize a SIP based VoIP system, digital voice over T1 lines or POTS (plain old telephone service), those voice services need to be available.

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