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This is a two part article – also read Combining Analytics with Performance Management Data.
I use Google Analytics every day to look at Key Web Performance Metrics to answer questions like:

How many people visit our blog?
I look at the Visitor Overview which shows me how many Visitors and Unique Visitors we have
Did they find us [...]

A client of ours recently contacted me with the question: We use Keynote, WebPagetest and dynaTrace AJAX – but we get different results with these tools/services. WebPagetest tells us that our page is very slow – but dynaTrace on my local machine does not. What can be the problem here? What’s the difference?
I took a [...]

I occasionally get invited to do JavaScript/AJAX Performance Workshops. Last week I spent two days with a group of dynaTrace AJAX Users that work in a performance task force group within their R&D Organization. I asked them about the reasons for this Client-Side Performance Initiative. They told me the following story:
One of our sales managers [...]

Last week’s Walkthrough Webinar on the new dynaTrace AJAX Edition 2.0 Beta 1 is now available for public access: View Webinar on ajax.dynatrace.com
If you have any feedback on either the new dynaTrace AJAX Edition or the Best Practice Documents then please use our Community Forum an let us know about it.
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JavaScript can save your day or it can cause you nightmares. JavaScript and XHR (XmlHttpRequest) enable what the industry considers to be Web 2.0 – meaning highly interactive web sites where some application logic is pushed down to the client into the browsers JavaScript engine. As with any application code – [...]

Over the last couple of years performance of web applications became more important to businesses as search engines (such as Google) factor in performance into their ranking. This ultimately leads to Performance == Better Visibility == More Users == More Revenue. Read more on Why Web Performance Optimization [...]

As announced last week in our Get involved in the dynaTrace AJAX Edition 2.0 Beta Program blog we are going to do a Walkthrough Webinar on Wednesday, June 30th. The webinar will be recorded and made available on http://ajax.dynatrace.com. If you join live it gives you the chance to address questions that you have in [...]

Velocity was probably the best stage for this announcement and it was great that we got a slot on the Lightening Demo’s to show what’s new from dynaTrace.

The dynaTrace Labs team has worked hard on the next version of the dynaTrace AJAX Edition. Since its inception, dynaTrace AJAX Edition got a lot of great and [...]

In this post I discuss the seven most important steps to improve your application performance practices. These simple-to-follow practices will help you to improve the way you deal with application performance. Besides eventually improving the performance of your applications it will help you to avoid playing the classical blame game which normally happens when something [...]

Our dynaTrace Community Portal is our gateway to our users. Especially with the rapidly-growing number of world-wide users of our FREE dynaTrace AJAX Edition, it is necessary to keep track on how well our pages perform from around the globe to satisfy our “performance hungry” community
There are two important questions we want to [...]