“Mobile” and “Web” sound like a perfect match, but reality often shows that these two trends form opposite forces. Recently we had an interesting engagement with one of our customers where we found how easy and dangerous it can be to inadvertently spoil end-users’ experience with mobile web application by forgetting the practical limitations and [...]
Today, more than 50% of Americans own a smartphone. They use them to update Facebook profiles, scan and deposit checks, find restaurants and more often than not work. As a result of today’s workforce becoming more dispersed and collaborative, employees often want to use technologies of their choice, including their own personal devices. Businesses have [...]
One end user’s experience finding the book Fifty Shades of Grey shed light on her intolerance for slow applications.
Unlike past applications that ran solely in the data center, modern applications execute code on diverse edge devices, often calling services from a variety of third-party cloud providers across the Internet, well beyond the view of traditional monitoring systems. To make matters worse, companies that modify their applications more frequently increase the complexity at the edge. [...]
In early February, we announced our third annual Best of the Web award winners for 2011. The awards showcased leaders in web and mobile site performance across seven U.S. major industries based on web and mobile site performance for the entire year. As a follow on to the “Best of the Web 2011: Compuware Gomez Web [...]
Tablets such as Apple’s iPad or Amazon’s Kindle Fire are increasingly making headlines with astounding growth and website traffic share numbers. According to a recent report, iPads have even begun to account for a higher percentage of Internet traffic than iPhones. Consumers and enterprises have embraced tablets in large numbers for everything from web browsing [...]
In an earlier post, I discussed that if retailers want to maximize ecommerce revenue from tablet owners, they had to first deliver fast, quality, optimized web experiences to their customers on tablets. This not only holds true in retail, but also for financial services. According to Gartner, worldwide tablet sales will reach 326.3 million [...]
This proposal defines a potential future standard as an addition to those currently developed by the W3C Web Performance Working Group. It’s goal to gain visibility into JavaScript execution via a browser provided API accessible via JavaScript. Motivation Current specifications of the Web Performance Working cover page loading related metrics. They however lack insight the [...]
The increasing adoption of mobile applications as part of a company’s online services leads to the question whether we need to monitor like other parts of our IT infrastructure. As they are part of our shipped application services we need to ensure they are working properly. However, not every application must be monitored the same [...]
What is meant by ‘performance’ and why should business managers care about it? Web or mobile performance is the technical capability of a web-based element — a web page, a mobile web page, or a dedicated application — to be fully available for critical business transactions and to load at speeds that meet a customer’s [...]
