Beating the Holiday Rush: Shopatron Uses BrowserMob to Handle Heavy Web Traffic

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Aug 172011
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According to Mastercard SpendingPulse, online holiday sales went up 15.5% in 2010 from 2009 and there were six days when online sales topped $1 billion.

Shopatron, a leading retail-integrated ecommerce solution that enables manufacturers to sell directly on their websites while retail partners handle fulfillment, dealt with the surge in traffic commendably—with zero outages.

Before the 2010 holiday rush, Shopatron needed to confirm that new website features—like changes to the checkout—could withstand the kind of increased volume November and December would bring. Our BrowserMob load testing services met Shopatron’s demands, including:

  • Assurance of 99.999% uptime
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Customer Success Story: ConnectEDU’s web apps keep pace with the company’s growth with BrowserMob Monitoring

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Aug 012011

As ConnectEDU continues to expand, it must have reliable web apps. Anything less will hamper performance and profitability. With BrowserMob Performance Monitoring solution, the company is ready to sustain their growth—not just theirs but that of the students whose dreams they help achieve. Learn More.

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Customer Success Story: With BrowserMob + Gorilla Logic, Advanous pulled off an important load test.

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Jul 282011

Advanous was able to pull off an important load test with an application that made heavy use of Flex. Using the Selenium platform in BrowserMob, it was a breeze for Advanous to load FlexMonkey and get down to work. Learn More.

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Working with Amazon EC2 - A Quick Case Study

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May 112011

As you all know, BrowserMob utilizes Amazon Web Services (AWS) and open source software to power our services – in fact, BrowserMob couldn’t have been started without it.  We have put together a case study about our work with Amazon, highlighting the ways that it is helping us save you money.

Our approach to load testing depends on launching thousands of instances in short order, and AWS fits that model perfectly.

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Case Study with SignalFive for Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection

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Feb 172010

One of our customers, SignalFive, recently published a case study about a project they did with Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection.

The project, called the Repower America Wall, involved a massive, Flash-based interface in which thousands of user-created images and videos could be scanned through at high speed.

In the case study, they describe how they calculated the estimated site traffic and decided to use cloud services, such as Amazon and YouTube, to help the site scale. However, before launch they still needed to prove to the customer that the site was ready:

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