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Black Friday traffic exposes gaps in observability strategies

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

What’s the problem with Black Friday traffic? If the mantra in sales is “Always be closing,” the mantra for online retail storefronts is “Always be online.”. Why Black Friday traffic threatens customer experience. Peak loads can overload and crash retailer websites and derail customer interactions. Dynatrace news.

Traffic

Traffic Strategy Retail Ecommerce

The new normal of digital experience delivery – lessons learned from monitoring mission-critical websites during COVID-19

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. s tate home websites/portals , COVID -19 and employment portals on an ongoing basis since the last week of March. .

Website

Website Monitoring Retail Media

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

Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

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.

Traffic

Traffic Ecommerce Retail Government

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

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

Possible scenarios A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack overwhelms servers with traffic, making a website or service unavailable. Possible scenarios A retail website crashes during a major sale event due to a surge in traffic.

Software

Software Software Infrastructure Network

Event-Based Autoscaling: Ensuring Smooth Operations on Your Peak Days

DZone

JANUARY 21, 2024

Think about retailers gearing up for Black Friday, sports betting companies preparing for specific games, or marketing teams orchestrating major campaigns. Even retail giants like Amazon have faced customer dissatisfaction during events like Prime Day when the website couldn't handle the traffic.

Retail

Retail Games Latency Traffic

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

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

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.

Best Practices

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics

Downtime vs slowtime: Which costs you more?

Speed Curve

MARCH 17, 2025

Some of you may remember the Amazon outage of 2013, when the retail behemoth went down for 40 minutes. But if a website or app is consistently laggy (read: many popular media sites), eventually, you just sort of drift away. According to the same survey, website slowdowns occurred 10X more frequently than outages.

Metrics

Metrics Website Airlines Speed

Why you need to know your site's performance poverty line (and how to find it)

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

The performance poverty line is the plateau at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics. What is the "performance poverty line"?

Performance

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce

Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Essent currently hosts all of their public facing websites and customer self-service portals in the AWS cloud. According to Chris Zadeh, the CEO of Ohpen, large Dutch banks are already moving their entire retail banking platforms to the cloud using Ohpen core banking technology running on top of AWS.

Cloud

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare

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

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

According to Statista , at least 50% of global online traffic is driven by mobile users. 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. If the websites or web apps are not responsive, users may not return to the sites.

Mobile

Mobile Testing Website Speed

2022 in review: New dashboards, Core Web Vitals enhancements, third-party tracking & more!

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Evaluate CDN performance by exploring the impact of time-of-day traffic patterns. Fixing high-traffic but poor-performing areas of your site will help lift your overall metrics. Optimize your funnel by understanding differences between users that convert or bounce from your site and users who don't. RUM update: Page labels.

Benchmarking

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics

Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes.

Availability

Availability Social Media Traffic Games

Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes.

Availability

Availability Social Media Traffic Games

Smart Bundling: How To Serve Legacy Code Only To Legacy Browsers

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

A website today receives a large chunk of its traffic from evergreen browsers — most of which have good support for ES6+, new JavaScript standards, new web platform APIs and CSS attributes. Smart Bundling: How To Serve Legacy Code Only To Legacy Browsers. Smart Bundling: How To Serve Legacy Code Only To Legacy Browsers.

Code

Code Retail Mobile Website

Why you need to know your site's performance plateau (and how to find it)

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

The performance plateau is the point at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics. What is the "performance plateau"?

Performance

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce

Technology Performance Pulse

Black Friday traffic exposes gaps in observability strategies

The new normal of digital experience delivery – lessons learned from monitoring mission-critical websites during COVID-19

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

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

Event-Based Autoscaling: Ensuring Smooth Operations on Your Peak Days

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

Downtime vs slowtime: Which costs you more?

Why you need to know your site's performance poverty line (and how to find it)

Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

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

2022 in review: New dashboards, Core Web Vitals enhancements, third-party tracking & more!

Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

Smart Bundling: How To Serve Legacy Code Only To Legacy Browsers

Why you need to know your site's performance plateau (and how to find it)

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