Did you know that Mother’s Day is the third largest spending holiday of the year? For online retailers, pundits were expecting over 25 percent of consumers to purchase a gift for Mom online this year. Seeing as how page load time can make or break online retail sites (a recent study shows that users will [...]
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The Ghosts of Cyber Mondays Past and Future
Today, otherwise known as ‘Cyber Monday’ kicks off the holiday shopping season, and has become one of the biggest days for online shopping for the entire year. Many shoppers hoping to get the best deals on the newest electronics will spend hours while at work buying for their friends and family. The only thing more [...]
Lessons from the SxSW Panel Picker Launch
Ahh load testing. We all know we need to do it, but how many of us–especially those of us with relatively small sites–actually do it? Testing allows you to determine how many customers your website or application will support–before you find out the hard way (when users hit your site, crash it, and you have [...]
Get Your Site Traffic-Ready for the Holiday Rush: Part 2
In Part One of Neustar Webmetrics’ latest series, “In the Driver’s Seat: Load Testing Best Practices,” you learned about all the aspects of load testing, including planning, configuring, scripting, executing and analyzing. Now you may be wondering about how to configure your test. What are all the pieces that need to be thought about and [...]
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Christmas In July: Is Your E-Commerce Site Traffic-Ready?
The team at Neustar’s Webmetrics has published the first in a five-part series to help you. The series will cover all the aspects of load testing, including planning, configuring, scripting, executing and analyzing
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Free Today, Down Tomorrow: Are you prepared to be an SMB overnight sensation?
SMBs need to prepare for future success today. Many small businesses, particularly those powered by online marketing and increasingly dependent on e-commerce, know they might see spikes in online traffic anytime, but they may not ready for it. It’s important for them to get prepared, all while staying in a reasonable budget. That being said [...]
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Transparency Comes to Load Testing via the Cloud
Patrick Lightbody, Director of Product Management at Neustar, discusses load testing in his blog post at Circle ID. “At its core, load testing is nothing more than ensuring your online presence is ready for the number of visitors you expect. It’s simple to explain, but historically it’s been anything but simple, or easy to afford. [...]
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Faster…Easier…And Just Plain Cooler! The New Webmetrics Monitoring Enterprise Console.
We’re very excited to announce the public beta launch of our Webmetrics Monitoring Enterprise Console. The new console helps customers easily manage, organize and view hundreds, or even thousands of monitoring services. With new functionality like quick phrase searching, easy column sorting, and the ability to group and filter services by tagging, life just became [...]
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We’ll See You at Cloud Connect
Learn about the latest cloud computing innovations, technologies and platforms at Cloud Connect, March 7-10, held at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Enjoy 4 packed days of keynotes, discussions and network opportunities. Plus, learn more about our cost-effective performance, reliability and security solutions, which are built for enterprises that rely on the Internet for their [...]
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Designing User Interfaces for Big Data
Throughout history, people have had to come up with ways to organize information and make it accessible to others. The more information people need to sift through, the more tools and aids people require in order to be efficient. For example, in a phone book, the phone numbers are not randomly listed, but are sorted [...]
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