performance

Monitoring Azure App Service Performance With SolarWinds AppOptics

January 22, 2020

Azure App Service makes it easy to host reliable and scalable web applications. However, this doesn’t mean you can ignore your applications after deployment. Errors, performance issues, and other problems can occur at any time, affecting your quality of service and revenue. Staying on top of problems like these requires comprehensive monitoring, and application performance monitoring (APM) solutions like SolarWinds®AppOptics™can help.

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Webpages Are Getting Larger Every Year, and Here’s Why it Matters

November 15, 2018

Balancing a rich experience with page performance is a difficult tradeoff for many publishers. We gathered statistics from the top 1000 websites in the world to see how large their pages are. We’ll look at what’s driving this change and how you can track the size of your own company’s site.

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How to Analyze and Improve Page Load Performance

October 19, 2018

In the age of high-speed Internet, poor performance can spell disaster for your website. 53% of mobile site visits are abandoned if a page takes longer than three seconds to load, and 47% of consumers expect a web page to load in two seconds or less. An extra one-second delay can result in fewer page views, a loss in conversions, and an overall decrease in customer satisfaction.

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How to Analyze Web Application Performance Using SolarWinds

September 27, 2018

In the push to make the web more accessible, performance is key. Websites are becoming bigger and more complex than ever before, placing a toll on both servers and clients. However, website performance is vital to attracting and keeping users engaged. In this article, we’ll explain why web application performance is important and how you can analyze it and troubleshoot problems using SolarWinds® cloud monitoring solutions.

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Protect Your Sales Opportunities with SLOs and SLAs

August 29, 2018

Web users now have such high expectations for website performance that a few minutes of downtime or a half-second delay in page loading can mean the difference between a sale and lost opportunity. Because so many customer-facing interactions are now conducted through the web, any downtime or subpar performance can lead to brand damage, degraded employee morale, and lost sales.

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Benchmarking PHP Logging Frameworks: Which is Fastest and Most Reliable?

August 23, 2018

How do PHP logging frameworks fare when pushed to their limits? This analysis can help us decide which option is best for our PHP applications. Performance, speed, and reliability are important for logging frameworks because we want the best performance out of our application and to minimize loss of data.

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Troubleshooting MySQL Performance Issues with SolarWinds AppOptics

August 22, 2018

You realize your boss is looming by your desk. “The system is down,” he says, as if it’s your fault. “Can you check the database?” “I know,” you say with confidence, “just about to find out.” If you can find the root cause, you’re on the way to getting things up and running again.

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Can gzip Compression Really Improve Web Performance?

August 15, 2018

The size of an average web page is growing exponentially. How do we keep websites fast even as they get bigger and bigger? The good news is that gzip compression easy to enable and gives your site an instant boost. We’ll show you how.

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