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2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

Dynatrace

Over the years, I have watched and written about online retail and e-commerce IT performance. What I have seen is a maturing of the online retail channels when it comes to delivering customer experiences. This year we saw few, if any, major issues with online retailers. This is where many retailers have matured over the years.

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The new normal of digital experience delivery – lessons learned from monitoring mission-critical websites during COVID-19

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Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. The following day, a normally mundane Wednesday , traffic soared to 128,000 sessions.

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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

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Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB). Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold.

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COVID-19 and Digital Services: An Action Plan for the Unexpected

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While most government agencies and commercial enterprises have digital services in place, the current volume of usage — including traffic to critical employment, health and retail/eCommerce services — has reached levels that many organizations have never seen before or tested against. So how do you know what to prepare for?

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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

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Mobile retail e-commerce spending in the U. It detects regressions and deviations from previously observed behavior across metrics such as latency, traffic, error rates, saturation, security coverage, vulnerability risk levels, and memory consumption. surpassed $387 billion in 2022, more than double the figure of three years earlier.

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How digital experience monitoring helps deliver business observability

Dynatrace

STM generates traffic that replicates the typical path or behavior of a user on a network to measure performance for example, response times, availability, packet loss, latency, jitter, and other variables). PC, smartphone, server) or virtual (virtual machines, cloud gateways). Endpoints can be physical (i.e.,

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2022 in review: New dashboards, Core Web Vitals enhancements, third-party tracking & more!

Speed Curve

Evaluate CDN performance by exploring the impact of time-of-day traffic patterns. We've added new capabilities for defining page labels with an easy, no-code, server-side (SpeedCurve) option using URL patterns. Fixing high-traffic but poor-performing areas of your site will help lift your overall metrics.