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Using Prefetch as a Proactive Approach

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
Network Reachability
DNS
SLA Management
April 28, 2017
2607

Is HTTPS the Answer to Man in the Middle Attacks?

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
Network Reachability
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
April 26, 2017
2606

The Impact of Web Caching

Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
DNS
CDN
DevOps
April 25, 2017
2605

Understanding Speed Index

Synthetic Monitoring
SLA Management
April 20, 2017
2603

Web Performance 101 – Redirects

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
April 19, 2017
2602

Glue Records and Why They are Crucial

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
CDN
SLA Management
Media and Entertainment
April 14, 2017
2600

The Case for DNS Redundancy

Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
DNS
API Monitoring
SLA Management
February 23, 2017
2586

A Bird’s Eye View Via Boxplot

Synthetic Monitoring
SLA Management
Media and Entertainment
February 15, 2017
2582

Poor Performance Cost SaaS Businesses an Average of $195K in 2016

Network Reachability
DevOps
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
Media and Entertainment
January 18, 2017
2572

The Very Real Performance Impact on Revenue

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
SaaS Application Monitoring
January 6, 2017
2569

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Digital Experience Needs

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
CDN
API Monitoring
SRE
January 4, 2017
2567

50 Mobile Performance Stats You Need to Know

Synthetic Monitoring
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
WiFi
December 20, 2016
2565

5 Reasons Synthetic Monitoring is More Important than Ever

Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
DNS
CDN
API Monitoring
December 15, 2016
2563

This is Why You Need to Cache Your Base Page (Homepage)

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
CDN
SLA Management
eCommerce
December 7, 2016
2559

Black Friday & Cyber Monday Performance Report 2016

Synthetic Monitoring
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
eCommerce
December 1, 2016
2557

Holiday Shopping Survey Results

News & Trends
Synthetic Monitoring
SLA Management
November 22, 2016
2554

How to Minimize Stress When Migrating to the Cloud

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
Network Reachability
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
November 22, 2016
2555

Sampling Part IIb: Simpson’s Paradox and Sampling

Synthetic Monitoring
DevOps
SLA Management
Media and Entertainment
November 21, 2016
2553

Top 5 Content Management Challenges You Need to Solve Now

Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
DNS
CDN
DevOps
November 16, 2016
2551

The Highs and Lows of the 2016 Election

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
SLA Management
Media and Entertainment
November 15, 2016
2550

Dyn DNS Outage - a Doomsday for the Internet

News & Trends
Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
Network Reachability
DNS
October 23, 2016
2542

Is Your Mobile Site Ready for Holiday Shopping?

Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
DevOps
SLA Management
eCommerce
October 4, 2016
2536

Performance Impact of Third Party Components

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
Media and Entertainment
September 23, 2016
2534

Revisiting the Anatomy of HTTP: Part II

Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
API Monitoring
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
September 15, 2016
2528

Web Performance 101: Page Size Optimization

Synthetic Monitoring
SLA Management
August 31, 2016
2523

Web Performance 101: Page Size Metrics (Total Downloaded Bytes)

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
SLA Management
Media and Entertainment
August 26, 2016
2522

Designing for Optimum Web Performance Across Devices

Synthetic Monitoring
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
August 15, 2016
2518

A Practical Guide to SLAs

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
CDN
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
August 4, 2016
2516

DNS Experience Tests: A Key Cog in the Online Ecosystem

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
CDN
API Monitoring
SLA Management
August 3, 2016
2515

DNS: What Can Go Wrong and How You Can Fix It

Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
DNS
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
July 28, 2016
2513

Security (SSL) has a Performance Tax

Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
DNS
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
July 11, 2016
2508

Riot Games Direct Connections from Users to its Servers

Network Reachability
SLA Management
July 8, 2016
2507

Signal Processing: Filtering Out The Noise

Network Reachability
DevOps
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
Media and Entertainment
June 29, 2016
2504

3 Ways Digital Marketers Are Killing Their Web Performance

Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
DNS
CDN
SLA Management
June 16, 2016
2498

Performance Monitoring with Real vs. Headless Browsers

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
API Monitoring
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
June 10, 2016
2496

Managing an Outage: Catchpoint and Zendesk Case Study

News & Trends
Synthetic Monitoring
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
Media and Entertainment
May 25, 2016
2488

Ask Me Anything: How to Get Started with HTTP/2

Synthetic Monitoring
CDN
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
SaaS Application Monitoring
May 20, 2016
2486

How a SaaS Provider Can Take Advantage Catchpoint OnPrem Agent

Endpoint Monitoring
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
SaaS Application Monitoring
April 6, 2016
2466

Using Images to Take Down Your Site Performance

Synthetic Monitoring
SLA Management
eCommerce
April 5, 2016
2465

5 Steps to Slowing Down Your Site

Synthetic Monitoring
SLA Management
April 1, 2016
2464

Catchpoint's Latest Integrations With Your Favorite Tools

News & Trends
Network Reachability
API Monitoring
DevOps
SLA Management
March 24, 2016
2460

Ad Blocking Puts A Premium On Web Performance

Synthetic Monitoring
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
eCommerce
Media and Entertainment
March 22, 2016
2459

6 Key Factors to Consider in Your APM Strategy

Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
DNS
CDN
SLA Management
March 15, 2016
2457

Catchpoint Is Integrated With Datadog

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
Endpoint Monitoring
API Monitoring
DevOps
March 9, 2016
2455

Digital Marketers Need to Care About Web Performance

Synthetic Monitoring
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
Media and Entertainment
February 23, 2016
2449

Catchpoint Alert Integration with AlertOps

API Monitoring
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
SaaS Application Monitoring
January 14, 2016
2434

TCP Flags Continued: CWR + ECE

Network Reachability
SLA Management
October 30, 2015
2418

UltraDNS Went Down and Took Netflix (and Half the Internet) With it

News & Trends
Network Reachability
DNS
SLA Management
October 16, 2015
2415

Facebook Outage Causes Ripple Effects Around the Web

News & Trends
Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
September 29, 2015
2414

TCP over IP Anycast – Pipe Dream or Reality?

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
Endpoint Monitoring
Network Reachability
DNS
September 24, 2015
2413

What is Apdex and how to use it?

Synthetic Monitoring
SLA Management
August 18, 2015
2405

How to pick the best CDN Provider

Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
DNS
CDN
SLA Management
August 3, 2015
2403

Why You Should Require Anycast DNS

Network Reachability
DNS
CDN
BGP Monitoring
SLA Management
June 16, 2015
2393

Mobilegeddon: Hidden Effects on Desktop Sites

Synthetic Monitoring
DevOps
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
eCommerce
June 15, 2015
2392

When the Wrong Code Executes: A Third Party Cautionary Tale

Synthetic Monitoring
DevOps
SLA Management
Media and Entertainment
May 28, 2015
2387

Facebook’s Instant Articles Feature Speeds Up Mobile Load Times

News & Trends
Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
CDN
API Monitoring
May 27, 2015
2386

The Holes in Google Tag Manager’s Async Loading

News & Trends
Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
Network Reachability
DevOps
April 14, 2015
2378

Third Party Tags Management Best Practices

SLA Management
Media and Entertainment
March 16, 2015
2372

The Effect of Third Party Tags on Website Performance

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
CDN
DevOps
SLA Management
March 12, 2015
2371

Why the Internet as a Public Utility is the Best Solution for Net Neutrality

News & Trends
Synthetic Monitoring
CDN
API Monitoring
SLA Management
February 17, 2015
2368

Facebook Outage Highlights the Need for Third-Party SLAs

News & Trends
Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
API Monitoring
SLA Management
January 27, 2015
2366

Catchpoint’s Website Loading Speed Optimization Program

Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
CDN
DevOps
SLA Management
January 20, 2015
2365

Frickin Sharks Are Attacking Our Frickin Internet

News & Trends
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
SaaS Application Monitoring
January 7, 2015
2363

Great Online Shopping Festival: Monitoring India eCommerce

News & Trends
Synthetic Monitoring
API Monitoring
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
December 23, 2014
2360

Catchpoint’s Slack Integration

Synthetic Monitoring
API Monitoring
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
SaaS Application Monitoring
December 18, 2014
2359

UK Black Friday Performance Latency

News & Trends
Synthetic Monitoring
SLA Management
Media and Entertainment
December 3, 2014
2357

How to speed up a website on desktop?

Synthetic Monitoring
CDN
SLA Management
eCommerce
November 5, 2014
2350

How Web Bot Detection Boosts Real User Monitoring Data

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
Network Reachability
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
October 23, 2014
2347

Get Your Website Ready for the Biggest Shopping Day in China

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
CDN
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
October 21, 2014
2346

DNS Lookup: How a Domain Name is Translated to an IP Address

Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
DNS
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
July 1, 2014
2328

How SACK Transmissions Improve Web Performance

Network Reachability
SLA Management
June 17, 2014
2325

Responsive vs. Adaptive Web Design: Which Is Right for Your Site?

Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
SLA Management
eCommerce
June 2, 2014
2322

Net Neutrality Issue: How to solve it?

News & Trends
Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
SLA Management
May 7, 2014
2320

There’s No Avoiding Network Latency on 4G

Network Reachability
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
Media and Entertainment
SaaS Application Monitoring
January 15, 2014
2312

The Dropped Box that Trembled the World

News & Trends
Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
SLA Management
eCommerce
January 14, 2014
2311

Why Commuters Hate Your Mobile Site

Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
DevOps
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
January 7, 2014
2310

Mastering Disaster – NY Velocity Ignite Presentation

News & Trends
Synthetic Monitoring
DevOps
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
October 24, 2013
2305

Why Domain Sharding is Bad News for Mobile Performance and Users

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
Network Reachability
DNS
CDN
September 18, 2013
2303

On Mobile, Data URIs are 6x Slower than Source Linking

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
Network Reachability
CDN
DevOps
August 21, 2013
2302

Navigation Timing vs. Heuristic

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
DNS
CDN
API Monitoring
August 5, 2013
2300

Faster, smaller and more beautiful web with WebP

Synthetic Monitoring
CDN
DevOps
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
March 26, 2013
2295

A Comprehensive Guide to WebP

Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
DNS
CDN
DevOps
March 8, 2013
2294

How to Test & Benchmark CDNs?

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
Network Reachability
DNS
CDN
July 11, 2012
2281

Web Performance from the Air - Last Mile Monitoring

Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
CDN
DevOps
SLA Management
February 28, 2012
2270

DNS Cache Poisoning Risks - Case Study

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
DNS
CDN
API Monitoring
February 21, 2012
2269

How to mitigate DNS problems

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
CDN
SLA Management
January 10, 2012
2264

The Most Used 3rd Party Providers and CDNs on Top Retail Sites

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
CDN
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
January 9, 2012
2263

The Biggest Misconception about Google PageSpeed Insights

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
CDN
DevOps
SLA Management
December 27, 2011
2260

Newegg Google Offer Hiccups

Synthetic Monitoring
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
SaaS Application Monitoring
November 28, 2011
2255

Cyber Monday 2011 - Web Performance Results

Synthetic Monitoring
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
Media and Entertainment
SaaS Application Monitoring
November 28, 2011
2254

Get the Most Out of Performance Monitoring: Setting Alert Thresholds

Synthetic Monitoring
SLA Management
July 4, 2011
2246

How Royal Wedding Impacted Web Performance

Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
DNS
CDN
SLA Management
April 29, 2011
2238

New Blind Spot in Performance Monitoring Tools

Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
DevOps
SLA Management
March 2, 2011
2231

Beta Release of Real User Monitoring

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
SLA Management
December 7, 2010
2228

How DNS affects Web Performance

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
SaaS Application Monitoring
November 16, 2010
2224

Slow Web Performance is a Silent Killer

Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
DNS
API Monitoring
SLA Management
September 30, 2010
2216

How HTTP Works - Anatomy of an HTTP Transaction

Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
DNS
SLA Management
September 17, 2010
2212

Web Performance Monitoring Metrics: Average, Percentiles, and SD

Synthetic Monitoring
SLA Management
Media and Entertainment
September 2, 2010
2211

True Availability of a Website

Synthetic Monitoring
Network Reachability
CDN
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
July 21, 2010
2207

More about Catchpoint

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
CDN
API Monitoring
DevOps
July 1, 2010
2204
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