A Non-Geeky Guide to Performance Measurement Terms
If you’ve ever been handed a pile of performance data and been stymied by the various measurement terms you encounter, you’re not alone. Even within our industry, standardizing our language is an ongoing challenge. In this post, we’ll walk through five of the most commonly used measurement terms, define them using language a normal person can understand, and talk about when you should care about each.
read moreAn 11-Step Program to Bulletproof Your Site Against Third-Party Failure
Everyone has bad days, and third-party content providers are no exception. If you host third-party scripts — such as ads, social widgets, analytics, and trackers — on your sites, then script failure is inevitable. Sometimes this failure is fleeting and passes almost without notice. Other times, a single line of JavaScript can cause your entire site to crash spectacularly. While you can’t control your third-party content, you can control its impact on your website’s performance. Here are eleven steps to protect your site.
read moreCase Study: How a 2-Second Improvement in Page Load Time More Than Doubled Conversions
Roughly 70% of online shopping carts are abandoned before checkout, and new findings suggest that slow load times are the number-one culprit. A recent survey* of more than 2,500 online consumers in the US and UK found that two thirds (67%) of UK shoppers and more than half (51%) of those in the US said that site slowness is the top reason they’d abandon a purchase. These are pretty compelling numbers, but what do they mean in real terms for a typical site owner?
read more200X Faster Page Load for SAP Documents Stops The Crowds In Their Tracks at TechEd
This post is part one of a three part series in response to the three major challenges related to SAP infrastructure articulated by professionals at TechEd
At the recent SAP TechEd conference in Las Vegas the theme from end-users was the same. From C-level executives and directors to everyday technology professionals, we heard the following concerns voiced again and again:
- Quality of experience is a huge issue when it comes to managing the latency of my organization’s SAP applications.
- I need to guarantee business continuity at all times.
- I need to ensure my SAP Applications are secure.
To be sure, the major challenge derives from the fact that SAP applications serve as mission critical infrastructure for the mainstream business processes that most end users touch throughout their day. SAP applications are designed to provide advanced business functionality to help organizations efficiently meet their business goals. Any SAP deployment counts on network and server infrastructure performance and availability as well as the ability to protect the deployment from malicious network and application attacks. In addition, SAP deployment is also dependent upon the ability to scale and support multiple applications and types of users, and all of this while being cost effective as well.
STOP the Finger Pointing: App vs. Network
Written by: Meryl Robin, Director of Virtual Solutions, Radware Inc and Yaron Azerual, Product Marketing Manager, Radware Inc.
The challenges of application slowdown: Identify where the slowdown occurs and why. Give your users unmatched QoE and routinely meet the highest level of SLA
We should discuss what the main goal for deploying an ADC is: 95% of the time, it is to enforce increasingly more stringent application SLA’s. To achieve this, we have to consider improving application availability, whether you’re solving local server failure with local server load balancing or fixing global downtime through GSLB with a DR site. It’s also important to improve performance by offloading some of the CPU intensive tasks from the server to the ADC, like SSL, compression, or even smart caching (dynamic caching for even faster response time of the application).
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