Speed it up, would ya? Improve your Web Application's Performance
Posted on Thu, Aug 26, 2010
Author: Roger Singh
Practice Lead for Network and Scalar's CTO
Stories we hear from prospects and clients alike about web application performance seem to share a common plot line.
You have worked hard to improve the UI of your website to make your visitor's experience as wonderful as possible. You have invested in all of the tools and infrastructure recommended to you to secure the site from hackers. You have honed your database to ensure that the customer with the book and the CD gets the recommendation to also purchase the appropriate themed gift bag. What do you do then when you're bounce and abandoned shopping cart rates continue to climb?
Thousands upon thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours later you have an internal site for your finance and operations team that integrates data from your ERP, your CRM and Websphere so that they have up to the minute access to critical decision making data. Despite this awesome integration you see that usage rates of the custom application are still low, and users continue to work within the 3 silos of data without leveraging the business tool you implemented.
Web Application Performance has become an extremely complex discipline today as it can be critically impacted by so many elements of your network. To understand the elements that impact web application performance you need to consider all variables including new virtualized environments, cloud accessed resources, hardware that gateway nodes reside on, and many other key facets of the integrated environment that your application resides in.
Scalar's Web Application Performance assessment can help you to get a clear understanding of how to decrease your web customer's bounce and cart abandonment habits, and to improve the ROI of your internal Web Applications. I look forward to learning more about your applications and how we can improve them together.