Monthly Archives: July 2010

The Marketers new badge of success – the site crashed!

Posted on July 22, 2010 by deri

Interesting bit of marketing spin this week from Marie Claire magazine – who reckon that their latest recommended must-have beauty product was so much in demand that it crashed the Boots.com web site! Confidence in Boots takes a knock from … Continue reading →

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Firefox 4 – New features for testing shown in London

Posted on July 22, 2010 by deri

Mozilla came to London this month, to explain some of the new features in the upcoming version 4 browser. The web testing teams here at SciVisum have been Firefox users since way back 1.0 days, and it looks like the … Continue reading →

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Less Flash – More user engagement

Posted on July 15, 2010 by deri

It’s true that over time, the pain that Flash causes when trying to measure meaningful user journeys on an ecommerce platform, I’ve learnt to live with.  It just does make the web test engineers task more demanding, especially when clients … Continue reading →

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Monitoring Video Streaming Performance – HTML5 in the wings

Posted on July 5, 2010 by deri

Speaking as web journey monitoring people, there are a number of reasons why a move away from Flash for delivery of streaming video, to a slightly more standards standard like HTML5 is attractive. In a nutshell, writing user journey scripts … Continue reading →

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Using the Cloud – Big Name outages hint at Cloud Cuckoo Land

Posted on July 2, 2010 by deri

We’re seeing a growing number of clients using Cloud technologies, whether public or private, to support their delivery online. And whilst web monitoring and testing user experience is a bigger challenge on the cloud – it is also even more … Continue reading →

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