We’ve wrapped up the fourth quarter and 2018 on a high note! We’ve completed the fourth quarter of 2018 with a 33% increase over the fourth quarter of 2017, and the year 2018 finished 30% over 2017’s totals.

When looking at the performance of your website, web service,or API over a span of time, you will notice variations in the performance reported by the monitor. You may also notice inconsistencies between the performance reported from different monitors. Why? Why do you see spikes in your charts?

We are headed to the top! We’ve risen another three rankings to number six for the 2018 Main Software 50 awards. The Main Software Top 50 list is an award handed out to Dutch software companies by the investment firm of Main Capital Partners. Each year Main Capital picks the 50 best companies, and Uptrends has continued to climb in the rankings.

In this case 200 OK is better than just satisfactory; it is EXTRAORDINARY! Uptrends has 200 website monitoring checkpoint locations!

Another Black Friday and Cyber Monday has come and gone. While all of you were frantically running from store to store and site to site looking for those great deals, we were watching. We followed 55 of the top e-commerce sites to see how they did regarding website uptime and performance during the peak shopping days, Black Friday, November 23rd and Cyber Monday, November 26th.

Want to know how to make sure your website, web application, or API makes you stand out against the competition? It isn’t all about offering innovation (not that innovation doesn’t help), but taking what you do offer and making it the best. I.e., website and API uptime, performance, and function matter. We’ve got some tips to help you get there.

Knowing what is going on with your web assets 24/7 is key to delivering a performant site with high availability. That is why Uptrends gives you so many options for getting the information out to the right people when they need it.

Where does the time go? The third quarter has flown by, but that doesn’t mean we’ve been resting on our laurels. Maybe it was because we were so busy or having too much fun, but we killed Q3 2017 by 40%! Let’s take a closer look at Q3 2018.

We want you to get started on the right foot when setting up your Web Application Monitoring, so we put together this list of 12 things for you to remember when recording your transactions.

Your private network is teeming with web services (APIs), intranet, business applications like CRMs and ERPs, acceptance and preproduction environments, databases, and other servers. Your business relies on your network infrastructure to function every day. Each part of that infrastructure needs to be available, performing, and functioning well to keep your business humming along.