Cost of Fixing Software Defects
I love this graphic on Altom Consulting’s home page that shows the relationship between when a bug is found and the cost of resolving the problem. Their tagline for the company that relates to this...
View ArticleComparing Page Views to Load Test Estimates
In some cases a customer may use google analytics to look for spikes in the number of page views per hour for a week or month. From this they may want to know how their load test results compare for...
View ArticleWeb Performance Affects Revenue
Yes, the holiday shopping season is still far in the future. Wait…Cyber Monday is only 8 weeks away. Yes, that gives you plenty of time before you need to start performance testing your e-commerce...
View ArticleWeb Performance News for the Week of December 2, 2013
Numerous articles are being delivered to the internet everyday. Not everyone has the time to read every articles of interest to them. To help facilitate updates in the web performance world, here are a...
View ArticleWordPress Performance – Version Comparison
Recently we decided to upgrade our WordPress core to version 3.7.1 and we figured we would perform some tests to see how the change affected us. I took our baseline of 11 performance tests (using...
View ArticleWeb Performance News for the Week of December 23, 2013
The Importance of Critical Rendering Path In the field of web performance, professionals would suggest that the critical render path is an important concept. What is the critical render path?...
View ArticleImportance of Mobile Web Performance
Mobile web browsing and shopping is growing at a remarkable rate. Sites that aren’t optimized to perform well on mobile devices will miss out on a large part of the market! Check out some surprising...
View ArticleWeb Performance News for the Week of February 3, 2014
National Signing Day Takes Rivals Website Down National Signing Day for high school athletes is like Christmas and birthdays all wrapped into one. Websites like 247Sports.com and Scout.com had their...
View ArticleWebPageTest Public vs Private Instance
WebPageTest (WPT) is a free, open source tool that is used to evaluate web page performance. The great thing about WPT is that it can be utilized by people with all levels of expertise, and has many...
View ArticleSuper Bowl Site Performance
This weekend the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots battled to give fans quite possibly the strangest game ending ever. From a one-in-a-million catch, a turnover, and an all out fist fight,...
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