Category Archives: Browser monitoring

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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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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Web site failures – expect the unexpected

Posted on August 25, 2010 by deri

As web performance testers, we regularly see subtle technical issues cause substantial failures in website user journeys -we expect the expected. Whether in 24/7 monitoring, when our multi-user-journey approach routinely highlights that all areas of a web site may be … Continue reading →

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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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Online Retailing – cautious about the future?

Posted on June 30, 2010 by deri

“We won’t see retailers that don’t have transactional websites in 10 years time” Internet Retailing Magazine write in The Key To Retail 2010. 10 years? Why so cautious? Any day now – would be my take on that. Of course, … Continue reading →

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Microsoft – Windows 7 to drive Online App usage

Posted on May 8, 2009 by deri

With the past record of Microsoft’s business practise, such as lost court cases in the EU for misuse of monopoly power with billion dollar fines, I guess no one is surprised at the hard line Microsoft takes at most every … Continue reading →

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