Dotcom-Monitor Web Performance Blog

We break down the importance of DNS resolution, why resolution time is important, and how website and network monitoring can improve your DNS resolution time.

The Top 10 features to ask an external website monitoring service provider about to prove that it is focused on reducing your IT costs, not its own IT costs:

We explore the distinctions of “high-quality monitoring” and outline what to look for when employing monitoring as part of an SLA management strategy.

Monitoring Content Delivery Networks enables webmasters to regain control of delivery and deployment of CDN content. Monitoring tools that reach into element-level performance of web pages, such as BrowserView Monitoring at Dotcom-Monitor, enable webmasters to quantify returns and increase efficiency of Content Delivery Networks.

Earlier this week Dotcom-Monitor announced ServerView Monitoring™ Media Stream. This technology allows users to monitor a broad range of streaming content from an external “user experience” perspective. In addition to comprehensive data and diagnostic aspects, customizable alerts may be setup for each media stream to continually monitor media performance and availability. Interactive waterfall charts and drill downs amongst the data allow users to locate and repair problems, significantly reducing mean time to repair (MTTR).

Below is a list of streaming media formats currently available for monitoring and testing:

UserView Monitoring video is more than a perceived user experience metric, it is the most direct record of user experience performance in the web application monitoring market today. As a result, time and dollars can be invested targeting optimization efforts that you can see will improve your bottom line.

When web application errors occur, saving time, effectively communicating with your team, and seeing the web application error from the user’s view reduces the impact of the error and provides a more direct view of optimizing web applications for the future.