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What is a HAR File and what do I use it for?
HAR stands for HTTP Archive. This is a common format for recording HTTP tracing information. This file contains a variety of information, but for our purposes, it has a record of each object being loaded by a browser. Each of these objects’ timings is recorded. The HAR file format is still an evolving standard, and [...]
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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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Product Principles
What makes great products? As a product manager at Webmetrics, I am continually asking myself that question. Sometimes the best product ideas come from the most unexpected sources. Listening to every source of ideas you can get your hands on is very important. How do we identify and prioritize the ideas that we believe our [...]
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Actual Load Time Versus Perceived Load Time and the Support of Service Level Agreements
Performance monitoring serves two critical purposes: to check a web site’s availability and to validate the speed at which pages from the web site download. Site availability is very easy to define; it’s either up or it’s down. There isn’t too much in between. Page download speeds can be a bit trickier to define because there are many different ways to delineate a web page’s load time. This is generally due to the nature of performance monitoring, in which an automated browser makes a request.
Advanced handling of page timeouts in Selenium
Originally posted by anu sandhanam in Web Performance Management Because both our load testing and website monitoring services are based on Selenium, we have a unique ability to measure the performance of things like page load times, AJAX timings, and other in-browser interactions. Selenium has both a “setTimeout” command and a “waitForPageToLoad” command. Both can be given a timeout value, which will [...]
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How your site performance affects your Google rankings
Google finally came through on a promise they made last year by officially announcing that site performance affects your Google search ranking. In their words: “Like us, our users place a lot of value in speed — that’s why we’ve decided to take site speed into account in our search rankings…We encourage you to start looking at your site’s speed — not only to improve your ranking in search engines, but also to improve everyone’s experience on the Internet.” …
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