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WatchMouse honoured as a leading European TMT company

ZURICH, Switzerland – 27 August 2010 – WatchMouse, a global industry leader in self-service website and application performance monitoring was named as a finalist today for the inaugural 2010 Bully Award honouring the leading European technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) companies as presented by White Bull Summits.

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One of the recent trends I have noticed over a period of time is that many websites and web-based applications have started obsessing about their website performance and uptime. In order to understand this obsession better, I think we need to look at two key factors:

1. Attention Span of the User
2. google Effect

Attention Span of the User

Many theories and scientific studies have been conducted on how data is being delivered to us via Internet and how it has changed the way we search and assimilate information. To put this in simpler terms, google has made us think differently. Due to this powerful search engine, data is made easy to find and simpler to deliver.

As a result, readers have started losing patience when information is not readily available or readable. This in-ability of readers/users to hold attention in a specific website/application has started to drive the need for quicker and cleaner websites.

Website designers and developers not only design it to get the aesthetic part correctly, but also try to ensure that it loads quickly and smoothly as a result. Gone are the days when the user would have to wait for the entire website to load. In today’s high speed network world, if a website does not respond within 5 seconds, it is considered as slow and users lose interest.

This is even truer when your website is an e-commerce one. If your web application loads slowly, then users who use the service will be discouraged to return back to your website. This translates to lesser traffic to the website which in turn means lower revenue. To put it simply, if your website is slow, you are out-of-business.

A lot of new programming techniques are also being developed around to ensure to create high performance websites. These techniques enable the developer to easily customize the website to required specifications without affecting its performance.

google Effect

google had googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html”>announced a while back about a change in its search algorithm which indicated that it will now take website loading times into consideration while calculating page rank. This new initiative by google seems to have spurred web designers and web application developers even more into speed-obsessed frenzy.

Since their announcement, website developers and designers have started testing their website for optimal performance (translated as optimum loading time). This has given rise to the need for a tool which allows them to analyze website performance, understand each component impact on website performance.

Although there are several tools which allows users to that, we understand the inherent need for a comprehensive tool which would help the user to understand how website performance affects uptime. Our Web Page Analyzer tool allows web developers to check the performance of his/her website he/she is developing and find out if their websites are slow. It provides information such the loading time of individual objects (CSS, images, sprite image, JavaScript, etc), page size and the total loading time.

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So, if you are designing a website/application and would like to find out how well your website performs, go ahead and use our tool. If you have any feedback, please feel free to use the comment section to post them. Also, if you think there are other factors which contribute to the need for fast loading, high performance websites, do let us know.
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A one year study of websites from hundreds of US cities shows widespread downtime across cities of all sizes and locations. The city with the worst performance was Pomona, California, which spent 10% of the last year with the website down. In total, 20% of the cities monitored experienced 50 or more hours with their websites down in the last year. On a more positive note, an equal number of companies reported uptime of 100% for the entire year.
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The IP addresses for our checkpoints in Sydney and Recife will be changed to the following:

Sydney, Australia from 203.84.234.120 to 202.51.170.6

Recife, Brazil from 189.21.153.6 to 187.45.182.178
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We are pleased to inform you that we have expanded our network of monitoring stations. We have added new monitoring stations in Boston, USA and Mumbai, India.
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In a couple of previous blog posts , I showed you how to add multiple locations for a new website monitor.  The advantage of using multi-location is to get first-hand information on how well your website or web-based application performs in front of a worldwide audience. In this blog post, I shall demonstrate how to monitor your current website from multiple locations.

1. Log into Site24x7.

2. Select the website you wish add more locations or change those locations to a different one and click on ‘Edit Details’ link.

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3. Under ‘Secondary Location’ option chose the locations you wish to monitor your website.

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Select Secondary Location

4. Click on ‘Update’ button at the bottom of the page and then presto! – You have added new locations to your website monitor.

Now, if you go back to the particular monitor for which you added new locations, it will display updated global status of your website from those locations.

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Updated Global Status

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You can further drill-down by clicking on each location response time. You can either email this report to yourself or download it in CSV format.

So, if you plan on monitoring your website from different locations, here’s how you do it. Wanna try? Head to Site24x7 and start monitoring. If you do not have an account, it is pretty simple to sign up as well!

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We are going to roll out a new user interface (UI) for Site24x7 shortly, which represents the first significant change to the interface since it was launched. We have made improvements to overall usability & accessibility and have updated colors and styles to match the Site24x7 website theme.

This update helps you to quickly access all features, data and statistics. It will be more intuitive, visual-friendly, easier to use and load faster.

A sneak-peek of the new interface can be seen below.

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The new Site24x7 UI update will be rolled out to all Site24x7 users in a couple of weeks, so stay tuned.

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