Launching and Upgrading Web Applications
What is the impact to your business when performance problems are not detected and resolved prior to launching or upgrading web applications?
Research shows that:
- 1 second delays in response time can reduce conversions by 7% and customer satisfaction by 16%
- 4 seconds is how long the average online shopper waits before going to a competitor
- 9% is the impact on on-line revenue due to poor application performance
- 57% of application performance problems are identified by your customers
- 90% of applications are not properly load tested
Today’s web applications are complex, with content and web services delivered to the end-users’ browser from multiple sources. These sources include components delivered from within your datacenter — what traditional load testing solutions address — as well as components delivered from “the cloud” such as content delivery networks (CDNs), news feeds, ads, analytics, bill payment, and ecommerce platforms.
When launching and upgrading web applications, key considerations include:
Will the application…?
- render and perform optimally across all browsers that matter?
- scale under load and provide quality web experiences to all users?
- meet your performance benchmark objectives?
Ensuring success requires finding and resolving problems prior to launch across the entire Web application delivery chain. This requires taking an “outside-in” approach, realistically testing from the end-user’s perspective across browsers, geographic locations, and peak loads.
Gomez Solutions for Launching and Upgrading Web Applications
What Customers Are Saying
The performance of our Web sites is key to profitability, especially during the summer season. Gomez’s solution helped us find and fix performance issues that other load testing approaches might have missed, and then launch our new sites with confidence.
Charlie Coniglio, Vice President of Marketing and eCommerce, Dollar Thrifty
