What Causes Website Downtime? | Scopify

We’ve all experienced websites which are unreliable, and appear to be offline when we need to access them. Perhaps you have had a similar experience with your own website, and know how damaging downtime can be to your bottom line and to your brand image. Whether a website is ‘down’ for an extended period of

Creating a Business Model Canvas for Your Business

We live in a world where the way we conduct business is always in a state of flux, and the recent example of this is the rise of online businesses.   An online business, or e-business, is any kind of business activity that is conducted over the internet and, in most cases, the exchange of

A Checklist for Your Website Launch

Launching a website is a huge milestone for a business, and because of its critical and complex nature, several things can potentially go wrong, which in-turn, can hurt your business’s reputation and dampen your team’s spirit. As usual, we are here for the rescue, so do see our detailed checklist below to help you go

The Cost of Website Downtime | Scopify

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday just behind us, and the Christmas and January sales on the horizon, the cost of downtime is a question that should be of concern to all business owners and e-commerce managers. It should be a concern, but is website downtime always given the consideration it deserves in your business?

How to Improve User Experience | Scopify

Our attention is increasingly focused on the online world, and with the widespread adoption of mobile devices, and rising data speeds, accessing a website has never been easier. There is also more choice than ever before for online users, with social media apps competing with traditional websites for our attention. In this crowded and competitive

The Impact of Website Downtime on SEO | Scopify

When your website goes offline there are many factors for you to consider as a priority, such as the loss in traffic and sales and/or leads. However, another factor to consider is how a period of downtime will affect your standing in search engines such as Google.   Website downtime correlates directly with lost rankings

6 Tips for Improving Drupal Performance

Providing a top digital user experience is critical if you want to grow the number of visitors and keep them engaged. Anything you can do to improve your Drupal website will have an impact on your business and ultimately revenue. Luckily, there’s much you can do to optimize your Drupal website, including implementing a range

How Web Application Monitoring Is Changing

By Patrick Hubbard, SolarWinds Head Geek The Web Performance Monitoring Do-Over I’m at an interesting point in my career. I’ve ridden all the rides and managed all the technology things like most ops engineers with some miles. Eventually, you realize—with a few notable exceptions—IT technology is a cycle in which enterprises reimplement the same business

The Expensive History of APM

By Patrick Hubbard, SolarWinds Head Geek When done well, application performance monitoring (APM) is a magical and irreplaceable tool. However, over the years, enterprises have sometimes paid dearly to implement it. APM’s task seems simple enough—replace emotional user anecdotes about application performance with quantifiable, actionable data. But the devil can certainly be in the details

Page Load Time vs. Response Time – What Is t...

Page load time and response time are key metrics to monitor, and they can give you an in-depth understanding of how your website is performing. However, the difference between page load time and response time isn’t immediately obvious, and neither are the benefits of tracking them independently. In this article, we define page load time