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The Key to Avoiding System Overload
Your website is suddenly very, very popular (think Black Friday or Cyber Monday). Millions of people are trying to get on at once. Can your system handle the overload? Learn how to prevent system overload,
How to Make a Website Load Faster in 6 Steps
Online customers are impatient. If your webpage takes more than just three seconds to load, you risk losing customers and revenue. There are many elements controlling your website speed that you may not even be
New Release: Apica LoadTest 2.9, Improvements & New Features
Apica LoadTest 2.9 is a major release with several important improvements and new features, detailed below. In total, 40+ functionalities have been improved and 43 bugs fixed. (New) ProxySniffer 5.2E is now the official supported
Browsing and Computer Processor Speeds in 50 Years
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.In the past decade, the speed at which a website renders has been a huge deal. Web speed
Advantages & Disadvantages of a Single-Page Website
Is a single page design the future of the web? To reignite and hopefully settle the debate, we’ll be looking at the pros and cons of single page websites. At one point, there was some
Page Bloat: What Should We Do About It?
The ever-increasing size of the modern webpage, known affectionately as “page bloat“, is becoming a big problem. As this handy chart shows, industry insiders expect the average website page to balloon to somewhere around 2200
7 Reasons Why Your Website Needs To Be Faster
It’s one thing to say you should improve your website speed, and another thing when you see the numbers. Turns out there’s a ton of well-documented statistics surrounding website performance, customer engagement, conversion, and how
Which Homepage Loads Faster?
Sometimes, you don’t need to have every last thing about website performance explained to you. Sometimes, you can just look at the world’s top websites and compare them for some interesting insights. That’s why sites
US Federal Health Exchange Site Slows To A Crawl
If you thought website performance issues were limited to the stuffy corporate server rooms, think again. Only a few hours ago, Washington’s new health insurance exchange site, HealthCare.gov, ground down to a halt. Thousands of
3 Ways to Make Sure Your Site Thrives Through the Holidays
Tired of waiting for your website to load? So are your employees. So are your customers. The holiday season is just around the corner and while it’s a time for seeing friends and family, slurping
3 Factors Impacting Content Management System Performance
Employing a content management system (CMS) is a logical way to store, organize and maintain your business or nonprofit organization’s ever-increasing volumes of content. Whether you use an open-source tool such as WordPress or an
Can my Application Scale?
Google Compute Engine (GCE) is relatively new to the world of Cloud Computing, as such, a common question we see how does this new cloud platform perform. Challenge accepted! Therefore it was very interesting to
