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What do Conversion Ratios have to do with Site Reliability?

You have no doubt heard of Google Analytics and will be familiar with conversion or goal tracking. If you haven’t, it is a method used to measure goals and KPI’s. That is of course the well known use case, but very often we see web teams using conversion tracking to also identify site problems. Many eCommerce teams will monitor their sites sales conversion ratio and if it drops they will instinctively know that there is a problem.

14 Tips To Improve Your Website Performance

Improving your website should always be at the top of your priority list for any site you manage. Without it, your site is going to be dinged by search engines for not performing up to par, and customers are also going to quickly get frustrated by the slow browsing speed and how long everything takes to load. Here are 14 tips to get your website on the right track.

Ruby logging best practices and tips

Ruby is an opinionated language with inbuilt Ruby logging options that will serve the needs of small and basic applications. Whilst there are fewer alternatives to these than say, the JavaScript world, there are a handful, and in this post, I will highlight those that are active (based on age and commit activity) and help you figure out the options for logging your Ruby (and Rails applications).

Technical Review: Examining Goliath's Early Warning System for Citrix, VMware, & RDS

The Goliath Application Availability Monitor is an industry-first software that provides organizations of all sizes with an early warning system, alerting IT administrators of access and performance issues with business-critical applications before their end users ever attempt to logon. IT professionals everywhere can now receive customizable alert notifications and warnings to exact failure points in the workflow for desktop virtualization platforms like Citrix, VMware or RDS.

Reliable free website monitoring from Uptrends

We stand by our commitment to making the Internet a better place, so we are excited to bring you Uptrends Free! We are putting quality uptime, performance monitoring, and alerts in the hands of everyone that cares about making sure their site remains available for all. You never need to worry again about site outages going unnoticed with Uptrends Free. Here is what you get.

4 Reasons Why Responsive Web Design Is Essential

In today's tech-driven world, the first impression you make on most customers is a virtual one. Before they visit your store, they get online to check your working hours, find your location, and see what you offer. And, the fact is, the great majority of web traffic today is mobile. So how are your customers going to find the information they need-your hours, location, phone number services, etc. - if they can't access your website from their primary device?

Holiday On-Call Schedules

The holiday season has just begun, and many of you are going to be taking time off to be with friends and family. Unfortunately, someone from your team has to be on-call during major dates such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. Thankfully, with PagerTree, you can easily manage your holiday on-call schedule so you can spend less time worrying about on-call and more time with loved ones.

Auvik Announces Integration With IT Glue

WATERLOO, ON / November 8, 2017 — Auvik Networks, a provider of network monitoring and management software for managed service providers (MSPs), has announced a new integration with IT documentation platform IT Glue. The integration will give MSPs the ability to sync details that Auvik automatically discovers about a network—such as device IP addresses, serial numbers, and software versions—into IT Glue, instead of entering the data manually.