The simplicity of use of Dareboost is frequently highlighted by our customers. After working with dozens of them to get valuable feedback, we’re very proud to announce a new release of our User Journey Monitoring (Scenario) feature. Let’s discover why and how you should start using it to better monitor your Digital Customer Experience!
5 days together: taking a step back to move forward
Although we work in the same company, the daily life of each Dareboost collaborator is very specific. About a year ago, we have hired our first remote workers. That was a new organization to be found. We do not live in the same place, don’t have the same jobs or routines, and it sometimes does not make it easy to share our successes, our doubts, our feelings. We’re enthusiastic and absorbed in what we’re building, but we also need to take a step back, once in a while, to nurture our vision and company culture.
We regularly meet in Dareboost’ headquarter (Rennes, France) for a few days of brainstorming where we alternate between workshops, indoor or outdoor activities, and friendly meals (long live the raclette!). Continue reading 5 days together: taking a step back to move forward
Content Encoding: why and how to use the meta charset tag and the Content-Type header
Improving the speed at which a web page is displayed often means making the browser’s life as easy as possible. When the browser receives an HTTP response, it actually receives text encoded in bytes, where each byte or sequence of bytes represents a given character. If the browser does not have a clear information about the used encoding, it will waste time trying to guess and may fail in some cases.
Dareboost at Etam: when Web Performance meets a strong culture of innovation
We often assist our clients in their web performance optimization projects. Between two follow-up meetings, some members of the Etam Group‘s web development team gave me an interview.
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Performance Budgets – We Love Speed 2018
This article is a transcript of my conference about Performance Budgets, held during the We Love Speed event (Bordeaux, October 9, 2018). Continue reading Performance Budgets – We Love Speed 2018
Dareboost Conferred with 2 Application Performance Monitoring Software Awards
We are proud to announce that Dareboost was recently honored with two coveted awards: Great User Experience Award for 2018 and Rising Star Award for 2018. Continue reading Dareboost Conferred with 2 Application Performance Monitoring Software Awards
The first event dedicated to web performance in France
We’re very proud to announce today an event that Dareboost is co-organizing with one of France’s leading e-commerce experts and other web performance experts: We Love Speed. This major event for #webperf fans is scheduled for October 9th in Bordeaux, France.
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Continuous improvement in web performance with Dareboost (by M6 Web)
Alexandre Thuriot, SEO architect, explains how he has been using Dareboost to manage and optimize performance for a leading french coupon website: radins.com. Conversion rate increased by 12%.
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Tag Manager & Web Performance Part 2: a question of discipline and collaboration
Using a tag manager does come with consequences on your web pages loading speed. In a previous post, we’ve pointed out that this impact can’t be limited to the asynchronous loading of the embedded tags, and that your tag manager can become a serious problem for your website performance. So now it’s time to explore a few best practices about tag management so that this tool could meet its marketing goals without compromising your webpages’ speed. With the help of L’Oréal’s Digital Ad Tech Manager and several experts. Continue reading Tag Manager & Web Performance Part 2: a question of discipline and collaboration
Lighthouse: a powerful tool included in Chrome and DevTools
After our articles about Test My Site and PageSpeed Insights, our collection dedicated to the Google Speed Update ecosystem continues with another tool: Lighthouse.
Released in 2016 as a Chrome extension, Lighthouse is now also available directly in Chrome DevTools, via the “Audits” tab. Lighthouse is a great resource for developers interested in web performance and quality. Continue reading Lighthouse: a powerful tool included in Chrome and DevTools
PageSpeed Insights: the best tool to check your website performance for the Google Speed Update?
This is the second part of our weekly series about Google toolkit for web performance. A few weeks before the Speed Update (Google algorithm change expected on July 2018) this collection will help you to benefit from the best of the available tools and to avoid tricky mistakes. The tool of the day is perhaps one of the most well-known: Google PageSpeed Insights. Continue reading PageSpeed Insights: the best tool to check your website performance for the Google Speed Update?
Web Performance & E-commerce Benchmark: Who’s the Fastest Beauty E-retailer in France?
Dareboost has tested the loading speed of 12 leading e-retailers of the French beauty market. Nocibé, The Body Shop and L’Oréal Paris stand out as the fastest websites. But the overall industry’s web performance measured by Dareboost is among the slowest ones since we’ve begun to test the french e-merchants loading speed, two years ago… Continue reading Web Performance & E-commerce Benchmark: Who’s the Fastest Beauty E-retailer in France?