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CHECK IF YOUR WEBSITES ARE READY FOR BLACK FRIDAY11 WAYS TO STOP PERFORMANCE ISSUES STRIKING

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HOW TO STAY AHEAD OF PEAK TRAFFIC ISSUES THROUGHOUT THE YEARPerformance issues don’t wait. They strike you when your business is at its busiest: when your website hits peak traffic volumes, when a new mobile app is launched, or when high revenues are there to be made. By then it’s too late for failure; you need to know applications are tested for all eventualities. Staying ahead of downtime issues is easier with Borland tools – here are 11 ways we can help you to release with confidence and overcome peak holiday and prime sales periods, including Black Friday and Cyber Monday.



CREATE BETTER EXPERIENCES, NOT BETTER QUEUESIf your website is challenged by peak traffic several times throughout the year, investing in tactical solutions such as online queuing systems may cost you more in revenue (and lost revenue from those who choose not to queue) than managing the core issue: which is having more incoming connections than you can handle. By benchmarking what kind of load and traffic your current infrastructure and applications can handle, Borland will help your marketing and tech teams to optimize performance and meet predicted rises in traffic.

BUILD A DISASTER PLAN‘Disaster planning’ is common in other industries, so why not use the same approach for worst-case website scenarios? It’s better to plan for what could happen as well as expecting success, such as a huge influx of happy online shoppers. Borland will help you run the right scenarios, get the correct teams on board, and work out the most efficient way to test units. This means load and performance testing becomes a part of your company’s AppDev approach, rather than assigning blame when a web outage occurs.

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KNOW THE EFFECT OF ANY SIZE OF LOAD

What’s the maximum volume of traffic your system can handle? Not knowing can be disastrous for business, yet many organizations believe there’s only one costly way to find out – build a test environment. Not so with Silk Performer CloudBurst™. You can have a cloud testing infrastructure up and running within minutes to simulate peak demands and let you run load tests on a pay-as-you-go basis. Quickly simulate peak loads from multiple geographies, and ensure your applications will withstand massive, global usage and user spikes.

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MAKE MOBILE PART OF THE EQUATION

Optimizing your site for mobile, both in terms of speed and reliability, and maintaining your website ranking is now essential to create a consistent, high quality online experience. By accurately simulating mobile network connections you can better understand the customer experience you’re delivering. And Borland tools also help you ensure that experience is consistent across all browsers and mobile phones types such as Android, iOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry.

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THINK BUSINESS REPUTATION AS WELL AS REVENUE

If there’s a hitch with your website experience, customers will lose patience and swiftly move to another site. In fact, people will visit a website less often if it is slower than a close competitor by more than 250 milliseconds – and 28% of web users will not return to a company’s website if it performs insufficiently. As well as loss of revenue, it’s equally important to consider the less-than-impressive memory of the downtime or slowdown experience that customers will be left with. By putting Silk Performer™ at the heart of your testing process, you ensure peak performance across all mission critical application types, and safeguard your valuable customer satisfaction levels.

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TEST EARLY AND OFTENDon’t wait until applications are into production to performance test. Today’s applications typically have separate tiers for presentation, business and data logic and legacy integrations. Use Silk Performer to load test all of these tiers in different phases of the lifecycle, from day one. By testing earlier you’ll find defects or architectural issues sooner, and minimize costs – because defects can be up to 100 times more expensive to correct at the end of the software development lifecycle than at the beginning.

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FIND THE ROOT CAUSE OF PROBLEMS FASTERIt’s not enough to just find performance issues: you need to drill down to find the root causes. Silk Performer includes diagnostic tools that allow you to efficiently locate the causes of performance issues, letting you fast-track their correction, reduce test-and-fix cycles and accelerate time-to-market. You can even look at performance issues under peak loads, so that by monitoring traffic spikes in one peak period you can apply what you learn and prevent issues in future spikes.

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LEAVE NOTHING TO CHANCE

Other tools may be able to test in the Cloud, but that’s all. They don’t give you the complete testing assurance of Silk Performer CloudBurst. As well as testing in the Cloud, it provides essential support for on-premise load testing of mission critical, heterogeneous or legacy application environments, plus mobile, VPN and hybrid testing. It’s the only solution you need to gain insight across all your environments.

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STAY ON TOP OF MONITORING

Your website is performing reliably. Keep it that way by setting up a website monitor in less than 5 minutes using Silk WebMeter™ so that you test continuously throughout the year, and catch ongoing changes that would have caused performance issues when you hit a peak event. Our completely free monitoring solution works alongside Silk Performer, alerts you by email, and updates you with daily reports if there’s an issue with your website – wherever that happens to be in the world.

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MANAGE IT ALL AUTOMATICALLY

What if you could run all of your performance tests unattended? By integrating Silk Performer projects into Silk Central™, Borland’s test management solution, it’s entirely possible and easy to do. You gain powerful test result analysis and reporting, based on testing schedules you can run anytime (even overnight). By running automated performance tests on each build, you’ll immediately detect performance degradation due to code changes, and fix those issues faster.

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GET A FREE WEBSITE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION FROM BORLANDPrepare for potential downtime in advance with a free performance evaluation. Borland’s Micro Focus performance experts will run a load & performance test on your website for up to 1,000 Virtual Users with Silk Performer, our enterprise-class performance testing solution, together with a preliminary site performance analysis. Get ahead of Cyber Monday Black Friday or Holiday blues now by registering for your free site evaluation here.

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