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This makes analyzing the internal performance of applications complex. Observability emerges as a path to efficient and effective operational insights. Imagine a team of doctors monitoring a patient’s vitals—heart rate, temperature, blood pressure. These readings, combined with observation of symptoms, paint a picture of the […] Webpages Are Getting Larger Every Year, and Here’s Why it Matters February 29, 2024 Data & Analysis Last updated: February 29, 2024 Average size of a webpage matters because it correlates with how fast users get to your content. People today have grown to expect good performance from the web. If your website takes more than 2.5 seconds to load, your users will probably never return to you again. Further, the more […] A Beginner’s Guide to Using CDNs February 28, 2024 Tips & Tricks Last updated: February 28, 2024 Websites have become larger and more complex over the past few years, and users expect them to load instantaneously, even on mobile devices. The smallest performance drops can have big effects; just a 100ms decrease in page load time can drop conversions by 7%. With competitors just a click away, organizations […] The Five Most Common HTTP Errors According to Google February 28, 2024 Tech Musings Sometimes when you try to visit a web page, you’re met with an HTTP error message. It’s a message from the web server that something went wrong. In some cases it could be a mistake you made, but often it’s the site’s fault. Now, you might wonder, which are the most common HTTP errors that people encounter when they surf the Web? That is the question we’ll answer in this article. Page Load Time vs. Response Time – What Is the Difference? February 28, 2024 Data & Analysis Last updated: February 28, 2024 Page load time and response time are key metrics to monitor, and they can give you an in-depth understanding of how your website is performing. However, the difference between page load time and response time isn’t immediately obvious, and neither are the benefits of tracking them independently. Can gzip Compression Really Improve Web Performance? February 26, 2024 Tips & Tricks Last updated: February 26, 2024 The size of the web is slowly growing. Over the past decade, the average webpage weight grew by 356%, from about 484 KB to 2.205 MB. Considering 800 KB was the average size of a website in 2012, that’s an enormous difference. While it’s true that the global average internet […] Troubleshooting End-User Issues With a DEM Tool November 23, 2023 Digital Experience Monitoring , Website Monitoring In the last decade, businesses have made massive investments in the digital economy with the goal of increasing operational efficiency and improving their customer or end-user experience. However, it isn’t rare for businesses to incur losses due to poor page load speed, failed transactions, or website errors. This is why businesses need to track end-user […] Exploring the Software Behind Facebook, the World’s Largest Social Media Site February 7, 2023 Tech Musings At the scale that Facebook operates, a lot of traditional approaches to serving web content break down or simply aren’t practical. The challenge for Facebook’s engineers has been to keep the site up and running smoothly in spite of handling over two billion active users . This article takes a look at some of the software and techniques they use to accomplish that. The Developer Obsession With Code Names – 200+ Interesting Examples February 6, 2023 Tech Musings Code names can be about secrecy, but when it comes to software development, it’s usually not so much about secrecy as it is about the convenience of having a name for a specific version of the software. It can be very practical to have a unique identifier for a project to get everyone on the […] Web API Monitoring Explained: A Helpful Introductory Guide November 25, 2022 Pingdom Products , Website Monitoring An API, application programming interface, is a collection of tools, protocols, and subroutines that can be used when building software programs or applications. APIs makes software development easier by providing reusable components and a set of clearly defined...