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

Dynatrace

They may stem from software bugs, cyberattacks, surges in demand, issues with backup processes, network problems, or human errors. Possible scenarios A retail website crashes during a major sale event due to a surge in traffic. Misconfigured network settings result in lost connectivity, impacting cloud services and online applications.

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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

If you've been working in the performance space for a while and you hear me start to talk about page growth, I'd forgive you if you started running away. ;). And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. Clearly we need to keep talking about it.

Mobile 145
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Five Reasons to Meet Rigor at eTail West

Rigor

As a retailer, you know that conversion rates are the lifeblood of your business. But, have you considered that slow page load times or web performance issues might be the culprit behind low conversion rates, high bounce rates, and shopping cart abandonment? You need network throttling for that.

Retail 40
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Mobile web testing – 3 approaches that will make your life easy

Testsigma

We were going through Adobe Retail Shopping Insights (2020) and found out that more than 42% of consumers have done their holiday shopping via smartphones. Honestly, there’s nothing better than automation testing on a real device to understand how our site is performing across various devices.

Mobile 65
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Hierarchical Navigation and Faceted Search on Top of Oracle Coherence

Highly Scalable

Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. In such cases, content delivery network (CDN) is typically used to cache majority of the content and shield the system from high workload. So, the only way was to cache all necessary data to minimize interaction with RDBMS. Entity Gateway.

Ecommerce 100
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Quality Begins Where the User Journey Ends

Apica

There’s nothing wrong with wanting the reassurance of good old-fashioned human-based user acceptance testing (UAT). Indeed, there was a time when applications were vertical stacks of software atop networks and servers wholly owned by the company. and getting pricing estimates from all of these parties. The Intellyx Take.

Retail 52
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ICYMI: Some of our most exciting product updates of 2024!

Speed Curve

RUM can tell you where that time is being spent, whether its network related or due to CDN or origin issues. See an in-depth walkthrough: How to test a site on demand Evergreen browser test profiles We've introduced "evergreen" browsers to your Synthetic test settings.

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