Monthly Archives: September 2010

Monitoring Holiday websites – not easy given the caching bashing

Posted on September 29, 2010 by deri

Looking at  the web performance of eCommerce sites, there are some things that make the Holiday sector unique.  We work with a number of holiday companies and they have a unique challenge when it comes to accurate website monitoring. When … Continue reading →

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Website Load Testing with LoadRunner – running out of road

Posted on September 28, 2010 by deri

I just came out of an interesting load test planning meeting .    It was with an organisation we’d worked with on web performance testing for some time, but this is the first time we’ll be doing major web load testing … Continue reading →

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Internet Explorer 9 reviewed – will it make web performance harder

Posted on September 16, 2010 by admin

Update: 25 September 2010: Looks like the folks at ZDnet are among the first to lose developer time wondering why their site has a problem with  IE9. I’ll come clean from the start and say I’ve never been a fan … Continue reading →

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When Google goes down – time we all did more web performance testing

Posted on September 16, 2010 by deri

So even Google has outages. Yesterday (September 15th) afternoon (UK time) a bunch of Google stuff disappeared – Search, YouTube etc.  Not so bad that everyone seemed to have noticed – but a few folks twittered.  (Update: 12 noon 16th … Continue reading →

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Web performance – sorry is (not) the hardest word

Posted on September 14, 2010 by deri

It’s a challenge to every online business – when you get something wrong, when the site just goes too slowly, when your pricing errors get hundreds of customers excited and then you cancel the orders… Do you say sorry? Or … Continue reading →

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The UK’s biggest web Load Test ever?

Posted on September 13, 2010 by deri

As part of our web performance testing services, we’ve been web load testing for a long time now. We’ve tested most sectors now, from government departments, to law firms, to online etailers, to utility companies and banks. We’ve tested big … Continue reading →

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