The online marketplace grows more competitive by the day—especially for content-rich websites and applications. As America has the third-largest amount of internet users by population (next to China and India), a sizeable portion of global online activity is generated from the United States. America also happens to be the world’s current largest national economy.

Have you checked your DNS speeds lately? When it comes to online performance, speed is king! The faster your service resolves queries, the quicker end users get to their destination and the happier your customers will be. Here’s the thing: When it comes to DNS speed, every millisecond over your competitors’ speeds could mean a lost customer. The good news is, there’s a way to test your speeds and to see just how your DNS speeds stack up against the competition.

Anyone who has investigated the cause behind a network issue knows how daunting it can be to pinpoint the problem. With so many different variables, the answer can be elusive. In our last blog, we explained how you could test your DNS speeds in PerfOps. Today, we’ll be showing you how to use our Traceroute tool to troubleshoot network issues and improve DNS speeds.

In our last blog, we spotlighted the Oceania region and showed you how you can use DNSPerf and PerfOps to compare providers. Today, we’ll be focusing on Africa, the top providers there, and how you can use this data to make better DNS business decisions for your domain. This will give you greater insight into your current or potential provider’s performance. You should have the fastest, highest-quality DNS for regions you cater to most.

Any organization with an online presence understands the importance of its website. That’s why companies invest thousands of dollars in design, user interface (UI) development, and site optimization. But that’s only part of the puzzle. Your website or online application can have all the bells and whistles, but if you aren’t fully optimizing your DNS, you’re losing money—plain and simple.

As we have promised, we continue to inform you about our new features. This time we will go after recently implemented Alerts features that can be useful for your CDN Providers performance monitoring (DNS and Cloud Providers performance and uptime as well).

Our team is constantly working on improvement of our services and expanding the existing functionality. And, of course, we want to share with you the results of our work.

Starting from now we are going to publish series of survey articles dedicated to performance metrics for content delivery networks in different regions or strategically important countries worldwide. The peculiarity of these articles is that the data used for the presentation is collected with PerfOps Real User Monitoring.

We hope that the most of our readers already have an answer on the question 'Why use a multiCDN', but let's get back to basics of the global traffic management briefly.