Tips for Preventing a Website Crash on Black Friday

Preparing for Black Friday
Retailers must have a performance test and monitoring strategy in place so that they can ensure a smooth and responsive customer experience during the Christmas season. It's important to regularly test your site's ability to handle expected and unexpected volumes. There are two monitoring approaches that should be considered: synthetic and real user. Synthetic monitoring is reliable, consistent and provides a historical view that reveals repeating patterns over time. Real user monitoring, on the other hand, gathers volumes of data and provides useful insights into real-time engagement similar to active traffic patterns.