This is part two of the blog discussing how bad code does often lead to bad performance of web pages, and what bad coding habits can contribute to the slow performance. In part one, I...
Previous research conducted by Capacitas has shown that the conversion rate of a web site starts to degrade when load times of web pages exceeds 2 seconds. Users tend to leave a web site...
Benefits of Automated Test Analysis
If you have some form of user response time monitoring in place for your website you may often see step changes in response times. Perhaps by a few seconds, maybe by more. Here’s a real world example:
Hardly a week passes without another major online brand suffering from cyber-attacks of one form or another, with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks becoming more and more common. Last Friday HSBC’s online...
JMeter comes with a very useful Debug Sampler which can be used to troubleshoot your script variables. The sampler spits out all variable names and values including arrays; from a regular expression extractor for...
