Beginner-friendly guide explaining how the internet works: how websites load, what a server is, and how data travels online, ...

Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to load test your websites with a handy command-line tool called Apache Bench. How well are your websites performing? You might ...

Research from Google found that website bounce rates increase by as much as 31% from one-second to three-second load times. In my experience, page load times are one of the most consistent technical ...

On my home network, a certain website (actually its probably a domain) refuses to load. Everything else works just fine. I'm on Comcast in the USA. The website in question is a hosting server I ...

Ever wondered what would happen if you launched your web applications without load testing them? You may run into glitches and lose a huge chunk of your customer base due to poor app performance. For ...

A practical guide to server load balancing by a Network World reader. Details server load balancing technologies and applications for systems managers. This piece was contributed by a reader. If you ...

A website often serves as the first interaction between a prospective customer and a business. The adage "you can only make one first impression" rings true when a user sees a company homepage. With ...

In this article, Adam Thompson will share some of the data and experience he gained regarding how web hosting impacts page load speed. As soon as Google announced that page load speed had been added ...

However, a recent study suggests that the average time it takes to fully load a webpage is 10.3 seconds on desktop and 27.3 seconds on mobile. In other words, website owners are still struggling to ...

Consumers expect quick, snappy performance from business websites. If your website is sluggish, visitors may well exit quickly and head for a competitor’s site. Diagnosing and correcting the causes of ...

There has been a large shift to online shopping during the past few weeks in lockdown --- especially for e-commerce categories like grocery and medicine. But what if your website has less than optimal ...