Whether or not you are a fan of U.S. football - it was really hard to avoid
this huge sports event on February 5. In addition to the actual game, it's
the Super Bowl commercials that - besides being very expensive to air -
usually drive a lot of load on the websites of the companies that run their
ads. The question is whether the millions of dollars spent really drive
consumers to these websites and make them do business with them.
As we won't get an answer from the top brands that advertised about the
actual conversion rates we can look at the End User Experience and
performance of their websites while these ads were aired. By analyzing the
data that we can get through continuous synthetic monitoring combined with
deep dive browser diagnostics, we'll be able to see whether their web
application was actually able to handle the load and didn't leave too many of
thes... (more)
The dynaTrace AJAX Edition has been out there as an Alpha for a couple of
weeks. It gave you the first impression what was to come. All the feedback we
have received (like that from Steve Souders, and all that has come in via the
contact form and the online forum) in that time made it possible to improve
the tool from its early versions to its first "official" release version.
In this article I'll discuss why dynaTrace Labs built the AJAX Edition, which
problems it solves and how to use it in an example with Google maps.
Why dynaTrace AJAX dition - and why for free?
At dynaTrace... (more)
Cloud Computing presents unique opportunities to companies to reduce costs,
outsource non-core functions and scale costs to match demand.
However, the Cloud also presents a new level of complexity that makes
ensuring application performance in the Cloud a unique challenge, in
particular with the many different usage and deployment scenarios
available.
Perhaps the most popular present scenario uses the Cloud to perform certain
tasks where additional computational power is unavailable in a local
environment, e.g.: running large scale load-tests or processing large amounts
of in... (more)
With its latest release, dynaTrace updates its Product Suite for Deep Dive,
Automated Cross-Browser Web Performance Optimization with two products:
dynaTrace AJAX Edition 3.0 is the free standalone tool that has been
downloaded by 30k+ users so far supporting both Firefox (3.6, 4.0) and
Internet Explorer (6, 7 & 8) dynaTrace Development Team Edition is the
Premium Upgrade and provides extended automation, end-to-end performance and
automated regression analysis for modern Web 2.0 Applications
In this first part of the series I focus on the capabilities that support web
developers ... (more)
Response times are in many – if not in most – cases the basis for
performance analysis. When they are within expected boundaries everything is
ok. When they get to high we start optimizing our applications.
So response times play a central role in performance monitoring and analysis.
In virtualized and cloud environments they are the most accurate performance
metric you can get. Very often, however, people measure and interpret
response times the wrong way. This is more than reason enough to discuss the
topic of response time measurements and how to interpret them. Therefore I
w... (more)
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