Patrick Hubbard

2 months ago | pingdom.com | Leigh Brown |Patrick Hubbard

You can think about a website the same way you think about your car. Every time something breaks, a professional—an engineer or a mechanic—usually charges a high amount for the fix (isn’t it annoying when you can’t tell if it’s a big or small fix?). Alternatively, you can learn some basics, get a few inexpensive tools, and troubleshoot many of the immediate issues yourself. The truth is web performance issues are relatively easy to understand once translated into plain English.

Jul 18, 2024 | pingdom.com | Leigh Brown |Patrick Hubbard

Powerful transaction monitoring now complements the availability and real user monitoring (RUM) capabilities in SolarWinds® Observability to provide richer Digital Experience Monitoring. With synthetic transaction and website availability monitoring, you can automate the testing of complicated website flows to identify broken links, latency, and availability issues before your users do and ensure a flawless user experience during every visit.

Apr 15, 2024 | pingdom.com | Leigh Brown |Patrick Hubbard

These days, systems and applications evolve at a rapid pace. This makes analyzing the internal performance of applications complex. Observability emerges as a path to efficient and effective operational insights. Imagine a team of doctors monitoring a patient’s vitals—heart rate, temperature, blood pressure. These readings, combined with observation of symptoms, paint a picture of the patient’s health. This allows doctors to diagnose issues and provide care.

Mar 2, 2024 | pingdom.com | Leigh Brown |Patrick Hubbard

Last updated: February 29, 2024Average size of a webpage matters because it correlates with how fast users get to your content. People today have grown to expect good performance from the web. If your website takes to load, your users will probably never return to you again. Further, the more data your webpage needs to download, the longer it will take—particularly on slow mobile connections. Balancing a rich experience with page performance is a difficult tradeoff for many publishers.

Feb 29, 2024 | pingdom.com | Leigh Brown |Patrick Hubbard

Last updated: February 28, 2024Sometimes when you try to visit a web page, you’re met with an HTTP error message. It’s a message from the web server that something went wrong. In some cases, it could be a mistake you made, but often, it’s the site’s fault. Each type of error has an HTTP error code dedicated to it. If you try to access a non-existing page on a website it leads to a 404 error. Now, you might wonder, which are the most common HTTP errors that people encounter when they surf the Web?