Velocity Velocity comes to Europe and we will are there. You can find our presentations and links here. Today we had a talk on What it means to deliver exceptional performance and tomorrow Andi will give a Lightning Demo. Hope to see you there What it means to deliver exceptional performance View more presentations from [...]

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 [...]

The W3C Navigation Timing API has found its way into most modern browsers. It is also now already party supported in Firefox mobile and fully support on new Windows Mobile Phones. While this is a great step forward it should at the moment still be used with care. We at dynaTrace started  using the Navigation [...]

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 [...]

More and more people are talking about the end of synthetic monitoring. It is associated with high costs and missing insight into real user performance. This is supported by the currently evolving standards of the W3C Performance Working Group which will help to get more accurate data from end users directly in the browser with [...]

We often see request error rates as an indicator for SLA compliance. Reality however shows that this draws a wrong picture. Let’s start with an example. We had a meeting with a customer and were talking about their SLA and what it is based on. Like in many other cases the request error rate was [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

The US Open is one of the major world sport events these days. Those tennis enthusiasts that can’t make it to the Centre Court in Flushing Meadows are either watching the games on television or following the scores on the official US Open Web Site. The question is: How long does it take to get [...]