AppDynamics Review
The last app monitoring tool review on our tour is AppDynamics. There’s more than meets the eye with AppDynamics. In terms of features, AppDynamics is huge in both depth and breadth. The app has...
View ArticleE-Commerce Benchmark – Magento
This post is part of a series: Next E-commerce environments on the internet come in all shapes, colors and sizes. In our next series of experiments, we delve into the world of open source e-commerce...
View ArticleE-Commerce Benchmark – WooCommerce
This post is part of a series: First – Next An Extension of WordPress A look at Google Trends indicate that WooCommerce has been gaining popularity very quickly over the past three years. This could...
View ArticleE-Commerce Benchmark – osCommerce
This post is part of a series: First – Previous – Next Introduction osCommerce has been around since 2000, making it the oldest of all the e-commerce platforms in this series. You will notice its age...
View ArticleE-Commerce Benchmark – VirtueMart
This post is part of a series: First – Previous – Next Introduction We’re past the halfway mark for our e-commerce benchmarking experiments where we score a bunch of open source e-commerce platforms...
View ArticleE-Commerce Benchmark – OpenCart
This post is part of a series: First – Previous – Next Introduction OpenCart is yet another free, open source e-commerce solution for the typical user. When you search for “OpenCart” on Google, you...
View ArticleE-Commerce Benchmark – Drupal Commerce
This post is part of a series: First – Previous Introduction Drupal Commerce is the last stop on our tour of e-commerce platforms. Drupal is a free content management system, and Drupal Commerce is...
View ArticleWeb Performance of Ecommerce Applications
You probably have been wondering why I’ve posted so infrequently over the past year. We have been bombarded with emails and phone calls demanding more blogging that includes my extremely dry, obtuse...
View ArticleE-Commerce Benchmark – WooCommerce Results
The new e-commerce experiments are here! The goal of these experiments is to expose how well these e-commerce platforms perform in their most basic setup when running on an Amazon m3.large server. To...
View ArticleE-Commerce Benchmark – Magento Scalability Results
The Web Performance Lab has been working hard to improve our testing and scoring methodology, and the new benchmark for Magento is here! We had high expectations for Magento because it is such a...
View ArticleThe Best and Worst of Cyber Monday Web Performance
Introduction: How the big brand name e-commerce sites handle the heavy traffic on Cyber Monday is always of great interest to our team and our readers. So this year, we decided to run a short...
View ArticleWordPress Hosting Providers Study: Web Performance & Scalability
Click to Zoom Experiment: When it comes to web performance, study after study has proven: fast and scalable wins the race. But with thousands of WordPress hosting providers, how do you know which one...
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