CMSWire, the place to go for all things content management, wrote up a fine article on why small business should us BrowserMob for load testing.

If It Crashes, They Can’t Come

If your website is your company, then having it go down for any period of time can cripple you. Huge interest in your site can see the server(s) unable to cope with demand.

Your new product launch, interest generated by a story from a major news site, winning an award and other factors can all drive an upswell of visitors to your site. And, if it goes down as they all try to check it out, they’re unlikely to come back.

An issue near and dear to our hearts is website performance monitoring over time. Not just alerting you when your webisite is down, but helping to find trends in the site’s performance. Are you getting more users on the weekends? Is you’re site slowing down due to third party ads? These are the types of questions one can only answeri if the websites performance monitoring is done continuously.

© 2012 The BrowserMob Blog Suffusion theme by Sayontan Sinha