Tis the season…. Why haven’t large corporations learned the value of load testing yet? How could e-commerce sites not be ready to handle the increased traffic for the busiest selling period of the year? Unfortunately, with the high traffic of Cyber Monday, certain websites were unable to meet customer expectations. Ok, let’s be honest –…
Welcome to the new LoadStorm.com! As you may have noticed, LoadStorm.com has recently undergone a makeover. While the old site was nice, we wanted to do better by utilizing web optimization! Not only does this new design offer a sleek, slim appearance, it is also easier to navigate. We removed quite a few elements from…
Since the Super Bowl is one of the biggest nights for television, companies are putting their best foot forward to engage their audience. Formerly a one-day event, Super Bowl advertising has morphed into a multi week campaign to keep viewers curious. Last year, CBS was charging companies $3.8-$4 million for a slot in the Super Bowl ads. This…
Ricardo Sueiras is a self-professed “IT professional and geek” (found that on his blog. His formal title is J2EE Systems Architect at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Canterbury, United Kingdom. Ricardo has extensive experience with web performance and load testing, and we are grateful he invested his time for a performance testing interview to share some good thoughts…
This is the third installment of an email interview with James Christie, software testing professional from Scotland. In the first part, James talks about his views on usability testing. In the second part he discusses leaders in usability testing, KPIs, test automation tools, cloud computing, and testing blogs. James mainly discusses load testing in this…
This is the second installment of an email interview with James Christie, independent software testing consultant and owner of Claro Testing Ltd. In the first part, James talks about his views on usability testing, and in this second part he discusses leaders in usability testing, KPIs, test automation tools, cloud computing, and testing blogs. Living…
Optimizing Video Streaming: MPEG-DASH, Video Compression, and Codec. Want to wach a video? Go to YouTube. No questions asked. If you’re a rebel, LiveLeak or Vimeo. YouTube serves more than 1 billion unique visits every month. 80% of their internet traffic is outside the U.S. while 100 hours worth of videos are uploaded every minute….
Swenzy Floods The Daily Dot’s Twitter with Fake Followers Swenzy is a company that offers marketing services on social media sites. They offer fake YouTube views, Facebook likes, and Twitter followers. The Daily Dot has recently received an additional 75,000 viewers and counting. Because of the extra boost, 85% of The Daily Dot’s followers are…
By now everyone knows that page load time is critical – It’s the one unifying factor that can ruin absolutely any app or website in existence. As optimization pushes the limits on how fast content can be delivered, milliseconds can make a huge difference to a user, as well as a company’s bottom line. Interestingly,…
As Web sites grow in complexity, the amount of content they host from third party sources continues to climb. “Third party content” refers to any content hosted by a separate company and integrated into a Web site using server-side HTML injection, IFRAME hosting, or a client-side AJAX include. This trend has its advantages and disadvantages….
