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Performance Tech Tips

Christmas Holiday Website Monitoring to Ensure Peak Performance

Christmas Holiday Website Monitoring to Ensure Peak Performance The holiday season is a magical time of year—but for businesses, it’s also one of the busiest. As Christmas approaches, online traffic surges with shoppers hunting for gifts, deals, and last-minute purchases. While the increase in visitors could be great for sales,

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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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Page Load Speed

Optimizing Web Performance: Understanding Waterfall Charts

When you’re working to improve your website’s performance, a waterfall chart is like a visual roadmap that shows you exactly where your site might need a boost. Whether you’re trying to speed up load times, improve the user experience, or fix any bottlenecks, understanding how to read and interpret a

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Load Testing

Getting Started with LoadView On-Demand Performance Testing

Let’s face it – the ideal load test emulates real world traffic, yet most load testing software doesn’t come close. A series of GET requests from an in-house server can’t possibly replicate what actually happens when a website sees a sudden increase in users from all over the world.

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Website Performance and Image Compression Go Hand-in-Hand

Images account for more than half of a typical web page’s content and are often the biggest hindrance to ensuring optimal web performance and a pleasant user experience. Learn which method of reducing image size is best for the web, and what the difference is between Lossless vs Lossy image compression techniques.

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IRCE 2013 – RUN! GO! GET TO THE CHOPPA!

What does Arnold’s character in Predator and the IRCE 2013 have in common? Why Choppers, of course!

Dotcom-Monitor is giving away RC Helicopters at IRCE 2013! Stop by booth #1109 for your chance to win. We’ll also show you how website uptime, speed and functionality directly impact customer satisfaction and how our web monitoring services will uncover performance bottlenecks that are killing your website conversion.

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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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