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Website Performance Monitoring
Active Network XF — The External Perspective of End User Experience
Gomez Active Network XF™ captures and reports real-time website performance monitoring data measured from the global Internet backbone. The detailed information provided helps information technology professionals to effectively operate and maintain fast and consistent web application performance for end-users across the world. Because Gomez external website performance testing originates outside the firewall, it gets you one stop closer to the perspective your customers experience by monitoring website performance across the Internet's main highways.
Gomez Active Network XF website performance monitoring services continuously measures the response time, availability and consistency of single page or multi-step business process transactions -- as frequently as your needs dictate -- from major Internet backbone locations in over 80 global cities.
Each test run captures full object detail so that you can drill down and pinpoint the exact root cause of a performance bottleneck or failure. Dynamic, real-time, website performance monitoring alerts are also easily configured in order to alert you as soon as performance begins to slow down, while reducing false or "ghost" alerts.
Our intuitive, Web-based interface makes it easy to use our website performance testing tools to:
- Configure testing locations, frequency, and type
- View object, component, and host level data or fast diagnostics
- See HTML, trace routes, and screen shots for failed tests
- Create and modify intelligent alerts
- Identify compliance with and manage Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Trend performance over time
- Instantly conduct HTTP, Ping, Trace route, and DNS tests
- Setup daily, weekly, and monthly e-mail reports
Because all the products in the Gomez ExperienceFirst platform are provided as on-demand services, and sold under our flexible measurement plans, it is easy for you to modify website performance testing locations or change the frequency of your website performance monitoring tests as your needs change.
How Active Network XF Works
Active Network XF is the backbone measurement component of the website monitoring and testing family of the Gomez ExperienceFirst Platform. It relies on the global ExperienceFirst Network, and leverages the common agent technology utilized by all agent based ExperienceFirst products. It provides accurate and dependable website performance testing measurements from major geographic cities across the globe. It provides real-time data collection that enables alerting, troubleshooting, trending, and reporting based on the delivery of timely and actionable website performance information.