Networks have become more complex over the years, with organizations having to support BYOD initiatives, hybrid cloud environments, third party content, and a geographically disperse workforce. If I could predict the future, I would say networks will become more complex in the coming years which means more potential headaches for network…
Since its first original series premiered (House of Cards, circa 2013), Netflix has transformed the small screen, giving the average weeknight the potential to be pretty extraordinary. The streaming service has evolved into more of a culture than a service; even its name is now frequently used as a verb.…
There’s a lot of talk these days about digital transformation and the digital experience, what seems to be missing from some of these discussions is the impact the network has on digital experience. In the run/grow/transform model of business most departments want to be a part of the transformation, but…
A website that scores positively across all performance metrics is usually what every online retailer strives to achieve. With the variety of devices available to customers, it is not enough to build a website that works perfectly on a laptop or a desktop. A single customer may access the site…
Last week’s Velocity New York conference by O’Reilly Media was held on the heels of new research published from DoubleClick by Google that concluded that mobile page load times of more than three seconds result in a 53% site abandonment rate. That’s not much margin for error for the devices…
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 35.2% from 2015 to 2020. This coupled with decreasing cost of HDDs on a per GB basis…
Understanding the performance and impact third party content has on a website isn’t a new thing. Back in 2010 Steve Souders wrote about the complexity of third party content and published a table on the impact some components had on performance. The world of the web has changed quite a bit since…
Digital experience monitoring (DEM) is an emerging technology that goes beyond application performance monitoring (APM) and end user experience monitoring (EUEM). EUEM looks specifically at the human end-user or customer interaction with an application. APM focuses on the performance and availability of the application. Gartner defines DEM as the experience of…
Many years ago I stumbled into the web performance space and quickly became fascinated by it. Over the years I have worked at many companies, all involved in performance in one way or another; from Gomez to F5, and, most recently, Instart Logic, and watched as the space evolved. Joining…
This post was co-authored by Greg Rubin, Mitchell Zelmanovich, and Andrew Smirnov Football season has started once again, which means millions of people are glued to their TVs several times a week to watch their team play. This also means that just as many, if not more, are also logging…
