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Master your website speed with these free tools

Speed matters! At least as far as getting the right information at the right time is concerned. When surfing the Internet, one of the most noticeable aspects about a website is its loading speed. After typing in a URL or clicking on a link, everyone expects to be directed to their desired website in under a second, or if not, in at most 2 seconds. And any website that takes more than that to serve information starts getting on a user’s nerves.

Improving web performance with browser hints & preload

When it comes to making the Internet a better experience for all, you need to take advantage of every opportunity to enhance website performance. In this article, we look at browser hints like prefetch and prerender along with the newer preload directive to see how they can potentially improve performance. We also take into consideration what that means for synthetic and real browser monitoring.

Why Are Less Than 1% Of Critical Alerts Investigated?

Many organizations seem to be suffering from alert fatigue. In a recent EMA report, according to Infosecurity, 80% of organizations that receive 500 or more severe/critical alerts per day, happen to investigate less than 1% of them. A shocking number to say the least! But what are the obstacles organizations are facing that allows such neglect?

Top 10 Java Performance Problems and How to Solve Them

Java is one of the most popular technologies for application development. Tens of thousands of enterprise applications are powered by Java and millions of people use them daily. Java has been evolving over many decades and there are so many web frameworks, middleware, data access technologies and protocols built on Java.