Today, you can have all the SEO, inbound marketing, and dynamic web design necessary to turn your website into an ROI powerhouse - but it all means relatively little without website performance optimization. For many businesses, speed = money, and having a poorly optimized website will always lead to lower conversion rates and unhappy customers. 

So when it comes to website success, we are ready to crown ROI as #1 in terms of performance metrics. Because if your website doesn't load in under 3 seconds, your potential ROI has already declined substantially. 

Your website is slow, and you’re wondering why.  Poor-performing JavaScript could be the problem. Here’s how to find out if it’s what’s ailing you — and your site visitors! 

Today, a quarter of all new websites are built on WordPress. A flexible and user-friendly platform, WordPress is the one of the top content management systems for business owners and developers alike. 

But when it comes to web performance, WordPress has consistent speed, scalability, and accessibility risks, including the likes of site outages and page errors, overloaded site infrastructure, and reduced online conversions. 

Hey, St. Patrick’s Day Weekend is here and not to put any pressure on you, but did you get a St. Patty’s gift for that special someone in your life?

As the e-commerce highway gets clogged by all you last-minute St. Patrick’s Day shoppers, we thought it would be fun to stage a friendly competition between a few gift websites – as well as take a peek at some unique Shamrock novelty items and evaluate their customers’ online experiences.

Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS attacks) are the stuff of nightmares for a website owner.  Major attacks are nearly unpreventable and can shut down a site entirely for hours or even days.  When you see a big site go down – be it VISA or the CIA or Wordpress – a well-orchestrated DDoS attack is likely behind it.  DDoS is a go-to tool for attacks by hacktivist groups like Anonymous and its various splinter groups, as well as terrorist groups around the world. And DDoS can happen to anyone, as the nonprofit computer hardware organization Raspberri Pi found out last week.  

So your website is slow, and you don’t know why.  Poor first/last byte performance is one reason it might be. Here’s how to find out if it’s what’s ailing you —and your site visitors!

Mobile phone users in Asia want to visit your website. They want what you're selling. But can they get it? Global companies with the desire to reach web users outside the US and Western Europe face a big challenge: slow cell networks. 

Right on the heels of analyzing Superbowl 2013 site crashes is Valentine’s Day!  And given the billions spent by consumers on gifts (and the many millions spent by the Ecommerce sites to drive consumer traffic), we thought it’d be interesting to monitor and diagnose site performance and user experience of several popular web sites, in order to answer the following questions:

A page load SLA (Service Level Agreement) or site performance SLA is an agreement your organization develops internally to define an acceptable page load time.  Creating and enforcing a page load performance SLA guarantees a site experience that's frictionless and valuable for your users.

Creating a strong page performance SLA isn't as easy as it might seem, though.  In this post, we outline the steps to create a good one, as well as some key questions to ask during your SLA creation process.

JavaScript performance is always on the mind of engineers as they chip away at average page load times.  But occasionally a JavaScript failure is so bad that it bubbles up to the attention of the average web user. That’s exactly what happened last Friday, when the "Login with Facebook" script took down a number of sites completely. Any users who happened to be logged into Facebook (so: many, many users) were redirected away from sites like CNN, Gawker, MSNBC and others, to be shown a Facebook error page. (See video below courtesy of AllThingsD)