Transaction timing is important for web performance engineers when acceptable service level agreements (SLA) have been defined. In these situations, it allows the definition and measurement of ...

Imagine that it’s “show time” for your company’s annual peak period of e-commerce traffic. If you’ve ever been an e-commerce manager for a toy company on Black Friday, a floral company the day before ...

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Ever wondered what would happen if you launched your web applications without load testing them? You may run into glitches and lose a huge chunk of your customer base due to poor app performance. For ...

DETROIT, Oct. 25, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gomez, the web performance division of Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq:CPWR), today announced a webinar featuring performance testing expert Scott Barber. The ...

When application performance suffers, so does business performance. Last year Aberdeen Group released research showing that issues with application performance could impact corporate revenue by up to ...

We’re now living in a time where users expect as much functionality, reliability and flexibility from Web apps as desktop programs. All our data is slowly but surely moving into the cloud, and ...

On-demand applications are often talked about in terms of how software suppliers should be adapting the way their software is provisioned to customers. These days, however, the majority of on-demand ...

As part of our coverage of the state of network optimization, I asked Hon Wong, CEO of Symphoniq (and former co-founder of NetIQ), to weigh in on the challenges of Web application performance.