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16th June 2020

How can you be more realistic with your load testing?

What does a realistic load test model look like? There are a number of factors to incorporate in order to achieve the required results you need, so adopting a holistic approach to load testing that takes into account the full user experience is key.

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27th February 2020

What to consider when load testing financial services

Financial Services applications have critical functions to maintain and need to be reliable. They manage the overall storage of sensitive data, analysis, management and processing of a bunch of financial transactions, as well as data sets and information to deliver a robust platform for the end users.

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14th January 2020

Load testing – getting the metrics right

At thinkTRIBE, we know that load testing can be transformative for the businesses we work with. Often, load testing is the only way to be sure you can confidently deliver a smooth and responsive user experience (UX), even when your website is at its busiest.

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18th November 2019

The importance of traffic profiling for load testing

At thinkTRIBE, every load testing project begins with the creation of a traffic profile that represents how users interact with your site or application, to make sure that we map the profile to a known peak. The purpose of load testing is to provide a reliable assessment of how a website fares under normal and anticipated peak load conditions, in order that potential pinch-points and bottlenecks can be identified and mitigated.

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5th November 2019

Load Test early and test often

The best approach is regular load testing, with increased frequency in the run-up to code lockdown. Load testing should never be considered as a one-off process. Even when testing is confined to a specific pre-peak period, retests are essential to ensure that your changes have been successful.

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18th December 2018

Top web performance blog topics of 2018

Our top-read blog posts reveal the web performance topics, trends, and advice that you and your industry peers found the most interesting this year. We’ve summarised our most popular posts of 2018 so you can catch up on what you might have missed.

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17th July 2018

Amazon website crashes on its biggest shopping day

On its biggest shopping day of the year Amazon’s website struggled to handle peak traffic. Proving that even the biggest players get it wrong sometimes. Errors were encountered on both the desktop site as well as the mobile app and disgruntled shoppers took to Twitter to voice their outrage.

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