Finally! Your site has hit the big time and your traffic is off the charts. Congratulations: is your site performance up to the task? Here’s a case where “be careful what you wish for” rings true: when that traffic rush hits, the best way to prevent disaster is with performance testing.

When should you plan for that traffic rush? Now. Start today.

It’s looming quickly on the horizon: that Q4 rush, the one-two punch of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Even though Q4 approaches quickly, you’ve been tuning your site for months to get it to peak performance. For this last-minute tuning, we offer a few tips for an ecommerce performance testing checklist to help you get the most out of the final sprint.

As your busy season looms, you can improve retail readiness in your website with load testing. As we move towards the autumn months and into the holidays, it’s time to gear up for some of the busiest shopping months of the year. For most businesses, the second half and fourth quarter of the calendar year represent a huge portion of their business, whether online only, “brick-and-mortar,” or a hybrid of both online and offline.

T'was the season to deliver a seamless online user experience, to bring under two second response times to shoppers looking for the best pre and post Christmas sale. Except that it wasn't. At least not for the following five companies.

The holiday shopping season is rapidly closing in and e-commerce sites and services all over the world are preparing for one of the busiest times of the year. With expected traffic spikes on November 29th - Black Friday and December 2nd - Cyber Monday.

That means load testing is more important than ever, and you should start moving forward with a load testing plan ASAP.