Obviously, cloud computing is not just a fancy trend anymore. Quite a few SaaS offerings are already built on platforms like Windows Azure. Others use Amazon’s EC2 to host their complete infrastructure or at least use it for additional resources to handle peak load or do “number-crunching”. Many also end up with a hybrid approach [...]
Application Performance, Scalability and Architecture
The busiest online shopping time in history has brought a significant increase in visits and revenue over last year. But not only were shoppers out there hunting for the best deals. Web performance experts and the media were out there waiting for problems to happen in order to blog and write about the business impact [...]
The busiest online shopping season is about to start and it’s time to make a quick check on whether the top shopping sites are prepared for the big consumer rush or whether they are likely going to fail because their pages are not adhering to Web performance best practices. The holiday rush seems to start [...]
Are you running an eCommerce site that relies on 3rd Party Services such as Address-Validation, Credit Card Authorization or Mapping Services? Do you know how fast, reliable and accurate these service calls (free or charged) are for your web site? Do you know whether it has an impact on your end users in case one [...]
The term Business Transactions and Business Transaction Management is widely used in the industry but it is not always well understood what we really mean by it. The BTM Industry Portal provides some good articles on this topic and is definitely recommended to check out. The general goal is to answer business relevant questions that [...]
After announcing support for Firefox 7 in dynaTrace AJAX Edition Premium we now also provide support for the latest version of Mozilla’s Browser in dynaTrace AJAX Edition. The latest Beta update of dynaTrace AJAX Edition 3.2 therefore gives you full JavaScript, AJAX, Network and Rendering analysis support for the latest versions of Mozialla Firefox and [...]
There is no doubt that performance is important for your business. If you don’t agree you should check out what we and others think about the Performance Impact on Business or remember headlines like these: Target.com web site was down after promoting a new labels: Article on MSN Twitter was down and people complaining about [...]
We like to blog about real life scenarios to demonstrate practical examples on how to manage application performance. In this blog I will tell you how we internally improved page load time for some of our community users by 3.5 seconds by simply following our own web performance guidelines that we promote through our blog, [...]
In my role I am responsible for our Community and our Community Portal. In order for our Community Portal to be accepted by our users I need to ensure that our users find the content they are interested in. In a recent upgrade we added lots of new multi-media content that will make it easier [...]
Many times have we been posting the recommendation to speed up your DOM Element lookups by using unique IDs or at least a tag name. So, instead of using $(“.wishlist”) you should use $(“div.wishlist”) which will speed up lookups in older browsers. If you want to lookup a single element then give it a unique [...]
