Mother’s Day spending is expected to reach $18.6 billion this year. It is the third largest revenue generating holiday, trailing only Christmas and back to school. The average consumer is expected to spend $152.52 to ensure that the day is special for Mom. Interestingly, online consumers will, on average, spend $233.67, 53% higher than the [...]
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Infrastructure Intelligence Success: Load Testing Is Part of the Sales Process
One thing a number of our customers have in common is that they truly believe load testing—and the impact it has on website performance—is tied directly to the sales process. Service providers and vendors that provide value-added services, demonstrate improved system performance and reduce service outages often see increased trust in their capabilities from their customers.
Cyber #Fun, or Cyber #Fail? Cyber Monday Could Go One Way or the Other. You Decide.
Today, otherwise known as ‘Cyber Monday’ kicks off the holiday shopping season, and has become one of the biggest days for online shopping for the entire year. The term was coined after the ever-famous ‘Black Friday’.
Straight From the Horse’s Mouth: Load Testing Best Practices from Our Customers
As you’ve likely seen, we pulled together a comprehensive list of load testing best practices for you to visit, and revisit, at your convenience to help you maintain high performance websites and applications that keep your customers happy.
In the Driver’s Seat: Load Testing Best Practices – Summary
We just wrapped up our five-part Load Testing Best Practices series. We hope you find these steps simple and convenient as you embark on your next load test. Planning When planning a load test, make certain you take all variables into account. For instance, before you load test a website or application, you should ask [...]
In the Driver’s Seat: Load Testing Best Practices – Analysis
Introduction Welcome to the 5th and final blog in our Load Testing Best Practices series. Today we’ll be focusing on how to make sense of your load test once it’s complete and then dig into the data to help locate the cause of any problems you’ve uncovered. What do we mean by Analysis? The goal [...]
In the Driver’s Seat: Load Testing Best Practices – Execution
Welcome to Part 4 of the Load Testing Blog Series. I’ll be focusing on the type of metrics that are captured while a load test is running as well as some best practices to prepare for when running a test. In my experience, the most useful metrics while a load test is running are: • Number [...]
In the Driver’s Seat: Load Testing Best Practices – Scripting
Hello Readers!! Welcome back to Part 3 of our Load Testing Best Practices series, which focuses on writing good load testing scripts. As I’m sure you would agree to, load testing is an imperative part of every development effort. One of the key components to your load testing efforts is a good load testing script [...]
In the Driver’s Seat: Load Testing Best Practices – Configuration
Now that you have read part 1 of our best practices blog series, on “Planning,” you’re ready to start load testing your website or application. So the next question is, what is the best way to configure my load test? What are all the pieces that need to be thought through and configured? Fortunately these [...]
In the Driver’s Seat: Load Testing Best Practices – Planning
This is the first part of a five-part blog series that will cover all the aspects of load testing, including planning, configuring, scripting, executing and analyzing. This first article focuses on the key areas and questions to consider when planning to run a test. Why test? I generally see customers greatly OVER-estimating their expected capacity [...]
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