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Summer 2011 Releases
Well Summer came and went in a heartbeat. Our engineering team was busy building new features and we had 2 releases in the last 2 months. Here are some of the features: New standalone Ping monitor –...
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Closing 2011 with one last release
The holidays are almost here and we could not have closed 2011 without one more stocking stuffer for our end users. Last night we rolled out the December release, the last release for 2011, which was...
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First Catchpoint Release for 2012
What better way to start 2012 than with a big product release! Our engineering team completed over 100 user stories. Here are three key features that were released and are a first in a synthetic...
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Last Mile Monitoring: Web Performance at 40,000 Feet Altitude
My job requires frequent traveling between the East and West coast. On every trip, I can’t wait for the plane to reach the 10,000 feet altitude so I can turn on my computer and connect to the onboard...
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Catchpoint February 2012 Release
February came and went so fast we forgot to give you a quick update on what we have been up to! Empowering Data Analysis Our in house NoSQL/In-Memory reporting platform allows customers to run...
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On The Journey For The Perfect Network Health Dashboard
This is a guest post courtesy of Dyn CTO Tom Daly. At Dyn, we obsess about network performance and the proof is in the tools we have built over the years to constantly monitor how our network is...
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The vendor who flunked the web performance test!
Yesterday, I received a nice and promising email from a “marketing automation” company about how their solution would help us with our marketing initiatives. It even included a mockup report showing...
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Veni, Vidi, Vici Web Performance – Velocity 2012
Like every performance geek, I just came back from my 4th Conference pilgrimage. This year’s 2012 Velocity Conf was fantastic! Throughout the conference I got the feeling that people are starting to...
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Why We Expect Fast Websites: The Drooling Dog and You (Part I)
By now everyone is familiar with the mantra ‘web performance and customer satisfaction/revenue generation go hand in hand.’ End users now expect fast websites and will abandon yours if it is...
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Performance as Craft!
Last week my good friend Jonathan Klein at Etsy published a blog about the latest performance achievements at Etsy. I have always been a big fan of Etsy’s IT team, they are very transparent about...
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Holiday Shopping 2012, State of Web Performance
The biggest online shopping season to date is about to start next week. It is one of the most important events for a retailer and probably the most stressful period for their IT operations. It is also...
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Holiday Shopping 2012, Single Point of Slowness.
The majority of the top retail websites performed very well on Black Friday weekend. Congratulations to all of you, engineers, operations, devops, performance engineers, network engineers and everyone...
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2012 was a big year for web performance as businesses put more importance on speed and availability. Several major outages and studies made the headlines on New York Times, CNN, BBC and NBC News and...
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A million thanks!
This post has nothing to do with web performance… well kind of. Starting a company is an adventure, with its highs and lows. It’s a real roller coaster, but no one told us that when we decided to...
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Catchpoint Nodes Take Over London
This week Catchpoint launched 6 new nodes in London, which are connected to 6 consumer ISPs: British Telecom, O2, Virgin Media, TalkTalk, Orange, and Sky. The connections range from ADSL2 to Cable....
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How the NYT Was Up When It Was Down
Yesterday, the big web news story of the day was the NYT outage. But the bigger performance story of the day was not the fact the NYT was down for a few hours, but rather, how the NYT team did all...
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Black Friday & Cyber Monday – 2013 – The results are in!
This article is work in progress as we collect more data. Keep checking. Date: November 28 2013 from 00:00 EDT to November 29 2013 23:59:00 EDT Desktop Web We monitored the web performance of the...
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Healthcare.gov failing again?! Is There a Web Perf Doctor in the House?
We’re at the end of the busiest online shopping weekend of the year, Black Friday to Cyber Monday. All eyes are on the major ecommerce websites as they drop their prices and handle millions of users...
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Web Performance is not an IT thing only!
“Why is Web Performance important enough to justify a business?” This is a question I was asked by a friend sitting at a holiday meal last week, and one myself and others in the Web Performance...
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Why Mobile Sites Come to a Crawl at Peak Times
With such quick and easy access to game scores, directions, video streaming, photo sharing, and up-to-the-moment news, mobile web is being consumed at a frenzied pace. Internet usage has doubled in...
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