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The Holes in Google Tag Manager’s Async Loading
At Catchpoint, we often give the advice to load third party tags asynchronously in order to prevent them from affecting your site’s overall performance. This advice almost always holds true, but there...
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How American Airlines Learned About Third Party Failures the Hard Way
The need for businesses across all sorts of industries to have performance monitoring strategies and reliable backup systems cannot be overstated. eCommerce companies in particular know that when the...
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Google Announces End of PageSpeed, but Other Options Remain
One of the most popular page optimization tools on the market is going away. On Tuesday, Google announced that its PageSpeed Service, which is used by developers of 14,831 websites (according to...
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When the Wrong Code Executes: A Third Party Cautionary Tale
Almost every website these days relies on various third party providers to deliver content, better user experience, analytics, and more. To use these third parties, developers simply reference the tags...
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Congratulations to Dynatrace-Keynote, But Please Get Your Facts Straight
The web performance monitoring community is a special niche of the larger IT industry; it’s undoubtedly a small world. It’s just not as small as Dynatrace and Keynote apparently believe it to be. After...
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United Exhibits Need for Monitoring and Failure Response Strategies
Not to be outdone by rival American Airlines, today United showed that they’re just as capable of stranding passengers due to IT failures. Citing what they called a “network connectivity issue” and...
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Neustar UltraDNS Went Down and Took Netflix (and Half the Internet) With it
Neustar UltraDNS experienced a major outage due to a suspected DDoS attack on Thursday, October 15, at approximately 4:20 PM EST and lasted for roughly 90 minutes. It was later discovered that the...
View ArticleVelocity NY ’15 Review Part II: How Etsy Turns Monitoring Data into...
Most people know Etsy as the online marketplace for handmade craft items from around the world. The 10-year-old eCommerce site processes nearly $2 billion worth of transactions a year. Just as it sells...
View Article3 Last-Minute Tips to Optimize for Black Friday and Cyber Monday
In just a little over two weeks, the online holiday shopping season begins in earnest over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, culminating in Cyber Monday. By now, most eCommerce sites have finalized...
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A Look Back at Black Friday Weekend ’14
Black Friday weekend is around the corner, and while most people are counting down the days until they can feast on their favorite Thanksgiving dishes, others are focusing on getting their eCommerce...
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Missed Target: How to Prevent a Cyber Monday Failure
Black Friday weekend has ended, and apparently, ‘tis the season to be failing. Over the course of four days, the eCommerce industry saw a handful of its giants experience major outages. This kind of...
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Integrate and Correlate Your Catchpoint Alerts with BigPanda
We are pleased to announce our latest integration with BigPanda, a data science platform for centralizing and correlating all of your IT alerts. Many IT departments today are buried under an avalanche...
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DNS Resolution and Its Impact on User Experience
When it comes to protecting their brand, there is little that any successful company would not do. But what if the brand is being damaged just by people being unable to find the store? If you think of...
View ArticleCatchpoint Alert Integration with AlertOps
One of our most requested integrations at Catchpoint is for alerting. Catchpoint, of course, generates its own alerts when a performance degradation is detected. Integration with an alerting platform...
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How SPS Commerce Kept Retail Moving During the Holidays
We know by now that online retailers for the most part weathered the storm OK during the holiday shopping season late last year, with some notable exceptions. But there’s more to the online retail...
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Top US News Sites Stumble During New Hampshire Primary
The New Hampshire Primary on February 9 may have been a watershed moment in the 2016 US presidential election, with anti-establishment candidates Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump both rolling to big...
View ArticleSuper Bowl 50 Delivered a Near Perfect Online Experience
Super Bowl 50 was a milestone for several reasons, one of them being the actual delivery of the game. The big game was offered via live stream on CBSsports.com, which gave viewers the opportunity to...
View ArticleDigital Marketers Need to Care About Web Performance
Recent digital marketing trends have focused on creating a more personalized environment for users. Rather than casting out an oversized net and potentially dragging in weeds and guppies, e-commerce...
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How to Use Third Party Data to Prove Your Worth
For all of the variances that the thousands of different online service providers have across a multitude of industries, one thing remains necessary for them to succeed: proof of their value...
View ArticleNews Sites Stumble at Crucial Moments on Super Tuesday
At the moment the polls closed in three states on Super Tuesday and pundits were cleared to project the winners, two prominent news sites encountered serious performance problems, taking longer than 30...
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