(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web application experience management services provider Gomez (www.gomez.com) has announced a major platform-wide upgrade and integrated enhancements to its web load testing, performance management, and cross-browser testing solutions for optimizing web and mobile applications.
According to Gomez’s Monday announcement, the upgraded Gomez software-as-a-service platform to provide the most integrated and cost-efficient solution for optimizing the performance and quality of web 2.0, rich Internet applications, content streams and mobile applications for businesses delivering rich web and mobile applications.
Gomez’s platform-wide upgrade includes the introduction of Gomez Recorder, which dramatically simplifies the creation and maintenance of test scripts for complex web transactions, including analysis of individual objects and steps within objects within a single webpage. Gomez’s new recorder automatically detects and captures the performance metrics of each step in asynchronous RIA transactions, enabling businesses to granularly measure and optimize the performance of each step.
Gomez has also integrated solutions for testing and monitoring mobile sites, applications and SMS services into the greater Gomez platform, giving organizations a unified view of the performance of both traditional and mobile web applications, letting them identify, diagnose, prioritize and resolve performance issues specific to traditional and mobile sites individually or together.
Gomez’s automated cross-browser testing solution has also been expanded to support 5,000 mobile devices and more than 500 combinations of browsers, devices and screen sizes, saving web developers time and money by automating mobile and web application testing.
Gomez’s on-demand web load testing solution has also been enhanced with added high-volume, cloud-generated load, combined with real-world load from Gomez’s recently expanded Last Mile network, comprised of more than 100,000 consumer-grade desktop computers running real-world performance tests. The extra capacity and reach generated by the cloud adds helps Gomez’s solution more accurately reveal the impact of peak loads on response times for end-users in different regions, with varying connection speeds, helping businesses make adjustments and launch new web applications with confidence.
Also, a new, integrated diagnostics dashboard aggregates test information across the entire Gomez customer base and global testing network, helping customers diagnose if a performance issue is specific to them or shared by others, and whether the problem is due to their infrastructure, a vendor, or the Internet in general.
“End-users expect web and mobile applications to be richer and faster; a double conundrum for the developers that build them, the IT operations teams that manage them, and the e-business executives that depend on them for revenue and brand building,” Gomez chief executive officer Jaime Ellertson said. “The upgrades to the Gomez platform provide businesses with the most powerful and cost-efficient set of integrated solutions, helping to optimize their most important Web pages and transactions and meet end-users’ expectations for speed and quality.”
