Category Archives: Monitor Video Streaming

Video Streaming Monitoring – Is your CDN value for money?

Posted on March 18, 2011 by deri

We’ve seen a definite step up in the number of clients using video to engage with their visitors.  Some are doing simple stuff, just a couple of videos, and keeping it to a simple download before viewing delivery model. But … 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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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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