Category Archives: RIA Monitoring

Website performance lessons from the Travel Industry

Posted on February 10, 2011 by deri

econsultancy.com put up some interesting research this week , What do customers want from travel websites? This reflected some of the best practise lessons that came out of a website performance assessment this month. Some of the findings were surprising, … Continue reading →

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Innovation, Lead Guitar and web performance best practice

Posted on January 19, 2011 by deri

Fame seems to be beckoning this week – firstly, SciVisum was runner up in the eConsultancy.com ‘Innovation in E-commerce‘ awards 2011 announced on Monday. And, it’s not every day that a web performance tester gets to play lead guitar to … 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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Monitoring video streaming – the BBC set a benchmark

Posted on June 24, 2010 by deri

I picked up the discussion at econsultancy.com about the quality (or otherwise) of the two main UK  TV channels video streaming online:  BBC versus ITV. As someone in London noted: “…However, the worst thing about the online coverage is the … Continue reading →

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Performance Testing AJAX web sites is not impossible

Posted on February 23, 2010 by deri

It’s been a busy period , with a number of large eRetailers upgrading their websites, to really go the Web 2.0 way. Generous sprinklings of AJAX and javascript. All well and good; but what is now slowly dawning, is that … 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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