Test Your Website Now to Avoid a Nightmare Before Christmas

3. Don't forget the finer details. If you're confident that your site will be up and the content will load quickly, it's time to focus on the nitty-gritty details that can make a big difference. Again, the key is to address them as early as possible.

How much free disk space do you have on your servers? Log files, database entries, video and photo uploads, among other items, can eat up space quickly, throttling CPU loads and causing server failures. Stop this problem before it starts by simulating a high workload to test how your server will handle holiday activity.