
What Does My Website Look Like From China? Test and Monitor Performance from China
Do you know how your website loads and performs from China? Find out what your website looks like from China with Dotcom-Monitor tools and solutions.

How to Avoid DNS Outages
It’s extremely important that visitors to your site are able to reach the content they want, and within a reasonable amount of time. DNS monitoring is the first step in ensuring consistent performance and connectivity.

What Is Digital Experience Monitoring? How to Watch Customer Journeys From Outside In
Your uptime monitor reports 100%. Your servers are responding in 180 ms. And orders are down 30% since Tuesday morning. Digital experience monitoring (DEM) exists for that situation. Server-side metrics

How to Choose a Monitoring Platform: Buyer’s Guide
How to choose a monitoring platform: a weighted evaluation matrix covering protocols, real-browser checks, locations, alerting, and pricing.

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

Cloud-based vs On-premises Monitoring: Similarities, Differences, and Best Practices
Understand the factors and best practices that must be considered when choosing a cloud-based or on-premises monitoring deployment option.

Case Study: Malcolm Group, Inc.
The Malcolm Group emulates the customer ordering process with powerful scripts to ensure a consistent experience. I’m the Marketing guy for our suite of e-commerce stores. We sell online

Load Testing Mobile Devices with LoadView
How to setup and execute a load test of web based mobile applications with LoadView.

Load Testing: HTTP vs Headless vs Real Browser
An outline of the main aspects of load simulation methods such as HTTP, headless, and real browser-based followed by a comparison matrix, to help you choose an appropriate simulation approach.

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

WebSocket Support Now Available
Dotcom-Monitor has released a new version of the EveryStep scripting tool that supports websockets. Monitor and test web applications that use websockets.

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!