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RapidSpike win European eCommerce Software of the Year

This blog was first seen as an article in Bdaily, if you missed it you can catch it below: RapidSpike, an industry leader in business-critical website monitoring, is delighted to announce its latest achievement: being named European eCommerce Software of the Year. This esteemed award celebrates RapidSpike’s unwavering commitment to excellence in a fiercely competitive digital ecosystem.

How to Achieve High Website Availability

For many site managers, a website’s availability is crucial to your online presence. Whether you’re running an e-commerce store, a blog, or a corporate website, keeping it accessible to users around the clock is essential for success. You might have heard the term High Availability before (or HA); this is the holy grail for websites. It refers to your website’s ability to remain operational and accessible even when faced with disruptions or failures.

Condoms, Cauldrons and Content: 5 years in Tech Marketing

My name is Georgina and I’m the Marketing Manager at RapidSpike, you may know me from hit budget Christmas adverts such as ‘Twas the Night Before Magecart’ and ‘Christmas Parties’. This week marks 5 years working at RapidSpike and in the general marketing tech space. It’s been a jam-packed 5 years. I’ve had the privilege of expanding my marketing knowledge, trying new things, and working with some of the best people I know.

When Third-Party Plugins Go Wild

Every single day RapidSpike detects thousands of problems with website third-party plugins that are causing revenue and customer experience issues, and 90% of them are not just affecting our users; they are affecting every user of that third party. The difference is with RapidSpike, we tell them about it. In 2018, a major e-commerce website experienced a significant performance failure due to a third-party plugin.

Monitoring for Broken Pages and Links

As the first point of contact with customers, a well-performing website can have a significant impact on the overall reputation of your business. Therefore, if a page is not functioning as it should on your website, this could have a detrimental effect. Have you ever been on a website and found it is not working as it should?

Using Data for Good: The Web Vitals Index

RapidSpike is committed to revolutionising website reliability, performance, and security — to make the web faster, safer, and easier for everyone to use. With the direct correlation between website speed and conversion now widely acknowledged, even marginal gains of 0.1% could represent millions of extra revenue for the UK’s largest brands.

The Top 5 Gambling Website Issues

Tune into any sports game and you’ll likely see an iGaming ad at some point. Sports betting or online slots have become so ubiquitous in the modern age that the United Kingdom now has one of the largest online gambling markets in the world. Due to their high-thrills gaming and transactional nature, gambling websites face more performance issues than most. This is why it’s so important to monitor website performance, looking at conversion rate optimisation and security.

The Top 5 Fashion Website Issues

The online fashion industry is undergoing a period of change more significant than most. Off the back of a pandemic, consumers became more demanding, but also more socially conscious. Coupled with supply chain issues and reduced high street sales, this put even more pressure on eCommerce. So how can today’s fashion retailers meet these changing expectations? And how can they leverage their online presence to better assure customers?