It’s so easy to give in to the gloom and doom that so many have associated with the year 2020, but here at Uptrends, we have reason to celebrate. For the second year in a row, Uptrends has been honored with the number one spot on the Main Top 50 list of Dutch software companies!

Have you been looking for a WebPagetest alternative for your periodic synthetic user experience testing? Uptrends has the free tools you need to check your websites. We love WebPagetest. Although recently procured and no longer independent, WebPagetest has been providing its free open-sourced testing service since 2008 (almost as long as Uptrends). The testing tool has helped many web professionals identify and fix performance issues, but you have other options as well.

Learn about the top 10 most frequent website errors Uptrends encounters. For this article, we took a one-month sampling (October 2020) of all the errors Uptrends catches, and we’ve broken the list down to the top 10 website errors. Join us as we look at possible causes, and we talk a bit about how to set up your monitors to capture errors more effectively.

If you already use AlertOps, you’re familiar with the incident management system. However, did you know that you can integrate your Uptrends alerting with AlertOps? Our newest integration brings together the automation of AlertOps and the reliability of Uptrends alerting.

We have some important news to report: Uptrends becomes part of the ITRS Group in a transaction to acquire 100% of the company.

The biggest shopping days of the year, Black Friday and Cyber Monday, are nearly upon us—again. If you’re on the development, operations, DevOps, or marketing team of a large e-commerce website, your busiest season is coming fast. Thanksgiving signals the start of long days, big sales, massive website traffic, and plenty of unexpected threats to your website’s uptime and performance.