Research from Google found that website bounce rates increase by as much as 31% from one-second to three-second load times. In my experience, page load times are one of the most consistent technical ...

Catchpoint, the leader in Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM), today announced a major evolution of WebPageTest, now fully enterprise-grade and integrated into the Catchpoint Platform.

Companies all around the world rely on business applications to execute critical transactions all day, every day. There’s no such thing as a normal day, unusually high demands such as promotional or ...

Transaction timing is important for web performance engineers when acceptable service level agreements (SLA) have been defined. In these situations, it allows the definition and measurement of ...

When selecting the best website speed test tool, start with assessing whether you want to opt for a paid tool or a free one. Free tools will offer basic functionality and testing, but will likely lack ...

Finding out how applications are performing for end users is a task made tougher when you add the Internet to the equation. A new free tool from Keynote Systems is aimed at taking some of the ...

The challenges of Web simulation stem from the fact that a test environment must allow for all of the variables and factors found in Web trafficmainly the unpredictability created by the end user.

Google PageSpeed Insights is the gold standard when it comes to checking website loading time. But that’s primarily designed for developers. Non-techies can look at Pingdom and GiftOfSpeed instead.

Do you know just how much oncoming traffic your Web site is ready to handle? Without proper capacity planning, even the best Web sites will collapse under pressure. The key rule in constructing a plan ...