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Google PageSpeed Insights vs. Extensions – Making Sense of Conflicting Scores
What’s it like to manage a website today? Complex. How about keeping up with the latest optimization techniques and tools? Daunting. Now imagine your optimization efforts are graded out of 100 and...
View ArticleCatch(point)ing Up With Velocity New York 2014
Velocity NY has wrapped up, and it was a smashing success thanks to hosts O’Reilly Media, as well as all of the sponsors, speakers, and exhibitors (we’re especially fond of one in particular). But we...
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Catchpoint and Cedexis Partner to Improve Web Performance
Catchpoint is pleased to announce a new partnership with Cedexis, whose customers can now leverage the Catchpoint service as a data source for Openmix traffic management. This is possible through...
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How Web Bot Detection Boosts Real User Monitoring Data
The following is a guest post from Ron Abisi, Director of Sales at Distil Networks. Catchpoint’s powerful and intuitive tools have streamlined the process for monitoring web performance in...
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Seven Steps to Maximize Desktop Speed
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now less than a month away, which means that eCommerce sites should be wrapping up their optimization techniques and testing their platforms in preparation for the...
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Five Steps to Maximize Mobile Web Speed
Yesterday, as a final step for preparing your eCommerce site for the influx of holiday shopping traffic, we offered a checklist of seven things to make sure you’ve done to maximize your desktop website...
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Introducing AirOps: The Internet of Flying Things
Since Catchpoint was founded, we’ve seen where all of this was headed. You may have seen our slogan “Monitor Everything” on the homepage. Well, we meant it. We started with web monitoring because the...
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Are You Ready to Take the Speed Geek Challenge?
We computer geeks are an interesting bunch. After spending the first 20 years or so of our lives being picked last in gym class and looked down upon by the high school All-Stars of the world, we tend...
View ArticleThe Winners of the Web Speed Geek Challenge Are In!
After a month and a half of web speed geeks around the globe testing their mettle, the results are finally in and the prizes are ready to be awarded. We had over 800 contestants over the course of the...
View ArticleHow the OnPrem Agent Will Save Businesses Time and Money
As our society’s reliance on online systems, applications, and cloud services grows, so too does the cost of performance issues within those systems. Whether a business relies on external-facing...
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Apple Leading the Way in the Adoption of IPv6
This article originally appeared on Mattias Geniar’s personal blog. This is pretty exciting news for the adoption of IPv6. In June, Apple announced that all iOS9 apps need to be “IPv6 compatible.”...
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Are You A DevOps Master? Prove It!
A little over five months ago, we turned the DevOps world on its head by turning a bunch of mild-mannered engineers and other web performance experts into ravenous, glory-seeking fiends who thought...
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TCP over IP Anycast – Pipe Dream or Reality?
The following article by Ritesh Maheshwari details how LinkedIn, a Catchpoint customer, switched their DNS solution from Unicast to Anycast, and was originally posted on LinkedIn’s Engineering blog....
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Signal Processing: Filtering Out The Noise
With cloud computing becoming ubiquitous and the advent of IoT, the problems associated with the three Vs of Big Data – viz., volume, velocity, and variety – would exacerbate. One routinely hears from...
View ArticleComplexity and Crashes
The recent surge in high-profile outages is not an illusion. It’s all too real and one major contributing factor often goes unmentioned. Reposted with permission from CircleID, this piece by Russ White...
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Sampling at Rescue in the Metrics Collection Arms Race: Pt I
In a recent report from MarketsAndMarkets, it was forecasted that IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) market shall grow from $2.17B by 2015 to $9.79B by 2020, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of...
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UEM: Closing Costly Visibility Gaps in Application Delivery Management
This is a guest post written by EMA Research Analyst Julie Craig. You can also find it published here. Today’s complex computing environments make it difficult to achieve the visibility needed to...
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Sampling Pt IIa: Types and Example Use Cases
In Part I, we provided an overview of the metrics arms race and had walked through the use of sampling in this regard. We had also discussed the importance of baking in recency of data during sampling...
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Top 5 Content Management Challenges You Need to Solve Now
This is a guest post from Cloudinary, a cloud-based image and video management solution. We are always looking for ways to help companies deliver digital experiences that will meet customers...
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Sampling Pt IIb: Simpson’s Paradox and Sampling
E.H. Simpson first described this phenomenon in 1951. The name Simpson’s paradox was introduced by Colin R. Blyth in 1972.[1] Blyth mentioned that: G. W. Haggstrom pointed out that Simpson’s paradox is...
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