Web Performance & CDN Blog

Or, maybe both. Synthetic monitoring simulates an action or path through a website by employing user defined scripts. You choose the intervals to measure each action or path. Real User Monitoring or RUM monitors all website traffic and gathers data from every user on your website, differentiating browsers and networks. It is considered “passive,” because […]

According to eMarketer, overall retail sales have grown less than 2% for the past two years, but ecommerce sales are growing at more than 13%. There’s no doubt your ecommerce website will be busy this holiday season. But, will those potential customers stay on your website long enough to make a purchase? The answer is […]

The enormous growth rate of China’s online population and web transactions has made it the market that cannot be ignored. Global Enterprises, ranging from luxury retailers to gaming platforms, are presented with as much revenue potential as challenges to reach online consumers in China. The Great Fire Wall, a highly sophisticated internet censoring/filtering system monitored by the Chinese government, is the single greatest barrier for serving web content into the country. The screening and filtering process drastically increases the average download time to 16 seconds for websites that are being served form outside of China. The natural solution then is to bypass the Great Fire Wall and deliver web content from within the country.

The PCI security standard dictates a set of comprehensive requirements for “enhancing payment account data security” such as credit card numbers, names, addresses, email, etc. It was developed by the founding members of the PCI Security Standards Council, including American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide, and Visa Inc., to help facilitate the […]

by Alex Nam, CDNetworks Europe Originally posted in https://www.comparethecloud.net/articles/a-state-of-play-keeping-gamers-online/ The rise of DDoS attacks in online gaming From World of Warcraft to DOTA 2, online gaming has well and truly exploded thanks to games consoles such as Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Connected devices have also played a significant role in fuelling this trend and widening the demographic, […]

If you want to have your ecommerce shoppers and convert them too, then your ecommerce website should be designed and optimized with a dual focus on user experience and website speed. Download the Whitepaper, The Content Provider Imperative: Optimizing the End-User Experience Across the Globe The following factors will vary by company but are important […]

It’s possible, but not all CDNs have the capability. Dynamic content (i.e. games, applications, payment transactions or any sort of interactive software) cannot be cached and must be delivered directly from the origin server. Dynamic acceleration enables data from the origin server to bypass standard internet nodes and be delivered through a more direct and […]

In September 2015, a mass-scale XOR.DDoS attack over 150 Gbps occurred utilizing Linux Malware. XOR.DDoS is the name of the malware, not the attack name, used to affect the Linux system. It was detected in September 2014 and the analysis of the malware was published by various security service companies and blogs. This blog and attached […]

Stability may not be the sexiest term in the world, but sometimes it’s exactly what you need to ensure that your content is available and quickly delivered. When your CDN vendor is spending cycles on activities that don’t contribute to the customer experience, often the customer experience suffers, both yours and your end-users’. All organizations […]