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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

Mobile retail e-commerce spending in the U. With so many of their transactions occurring online, customers are becoming more demanding, expecting websites and applications to always perform perfectly. Website load times have been found to have a direct correlation with conversion rates. Service-level indicators (SLIs).

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Black Friday traffic exposes gaps in observability strategies

Dynatrace

If the mantra in sales is “Always be closing,” the mantra for online retail storefronts is “Always be online.”. Peak loads can overload and crash retailer websites and derail customer interactions. Moreover, website performance problems during peak times have a clear economic impact.

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Six causes of major software outages–And how to avoid them

Dynatrace

Possible scenarios A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack overwhelms servers with traffic, making a website or service unavailable. Employee training in cybersecurity best practices and maintaining up-to-date software and systems are also crucial.

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COVID-19 and Digital Services: An Action Plan for the Unexpected

Dynatrace

While most government agencies and commercial enterprises have digital services in place, the current volume of usage — including traffic to critical employment, health and retail/eCommerce services — has reached levels that many organizations have never seen before or tested against. But often the best strategy is to conduct a stress test.

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How Target.com Could Make Their Site 3.1s Faster

MachMetrics

Target is one of the most well-known retailers around, and they’ve recently increased their focus on the e-commerce portion of their business – Target.com. In fact, they just cracked into the top 10 list of US e-commerce retailers. Unfortunately, Target.com is not a fast website. Time to Interactive (TTI): 6.2s

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How To Build An Amazon Product Scraper With Node.js

Smashing Magazine

As such, I urge you always to be mindful of the website while scraping, take care not to damage it, and follow ethical guidelines. Recommended Reading : “ The Guide To Ethical Scraping Of Dynamic Websites With Node.js So, it goes without saying just how big of a data treasure trove the website is. Not all websites are the same.

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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. I meet with so many people whose job it is to build and optimize websites. Here are some tips and best practices to help on that journey. More on that later.). Takeaways. Fight regression.

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