Category Archives: Service Updates

The major update of DareBoost

Brand-new comparison reports for your Website Performance Benchmarks

A new version of our performance comparison reports has just been released. With an improved user experience and some additional data available, benchmarking your competition is now easier than ever!
After a quick reminder about why and how you can use the performance comparison feature, let’s discover what’s new under the hood!
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Update to Chrome 73 and infrastructure upgrade

After several months of intensive work (and a new coffee machine), we are pleased to announce the next update of our service: June 13th (03:00 AM UTC). It will include an update to Chrome 73, a revised access management policy for detailed reports and a technical architecture revamped to meet the growing needs of our ever-increasing number of customers.

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Synthetic Monitoring to monitor the web performance of your User Journeys (transaction monitoring)

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!

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New Metrics for your Web Performance tests & monitors: Custom Timings

Custom timings (API User Timing), have just landed on Dareboost! This brand-new range of performance indicators gives a new dimension to your web page analyses and monitors. And that’s not it yet: more advanced indicators such as DomContentLoaded or Onload are now available in your monitoring data… Let’s discover how to use these new performance metrics with our tool. Continue reading New Metrics for your Web Performance tests & monitors: Custom Timings

Website analysis: new checks in our test reports

Update: as announced 2 weeks ago, we have updated  the quality checks on Dareboost on December 12.

Save the date! From December 12, new quality checks will enrich our website analysis tool. This post aims to introduce those new quality tests. This is a major update, with numerous new tests and also improvements for existing ones. Expect your Dareboost score to change on December 12! Let’s discover the changes and hopefully this will be an opportunity for you to fix some issues even before the update.

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Website analysis: new checkpoints on Dareboost

UPDATE: New checkpoints described in this post are now available on dareboost.com!

On February 2nd, checkpoints applied to our website quality test tool will be updated. New checkpoints, impacts on the Dareboost score… Here is a detailed review of this update to come, so that you could anticipate it and avoid any drop of your own score! Continue reading Website analysis: new checkpoints on Dareboost

Web Performance and User Journey Monitoring with Dareboost

It’s been months we have been working on it and testing it with a few renowned customers, and there we are now… Proud to announce the release of a brand-new feature on Dareboost: Synthetic User Journey Monitoring! Thanks to this new service, you will be able to analyze and monitor the web performance of a whole user journey. Let’s discover this new option. Continue reading Web Performance and User Journey Monitoring with Dareboost

DNS Mapping: one more feature for website speed tests with Dareboost

One more new feature has just been added to the advanced settings for our website speed tests, as for our monitoring and comparison features: the DNS Mapping. Thanks to this new option, you can now enforce one/many DNS resolutions. Let’s see why and how to use such a feature through a few examples. Continue reading DNS Mapping: one more feature for website speed tests with Dareboost

Major update announcement: HTTP/2 speed test support and more

Our team is glad to announce today our next major upgrade, planned deployed on 19th September, with a brand-new test probe technology. We’re detailing within this post all the evolutions and improvements. This is one of our biggest update, with amazing news such as HTTP/2 support and much more to discover…

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Website analysis: new checkpoints in our test reports

UPDATE: New checkpoints described in this post are now available on dareboost.com!

Save this date: from June 23rd, new checkpoints will enrich our website quality test. This post aims to introduce you the new checkpoints before being live, so you’ll have time to correct your website (if needed) before our update… Avoiding, by this way, any drop of your DareBoost score!

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Website Analysis: new checkpoints on Dareboost

UPDATE: Best practices described in this article are now available on dareboost.com!

Mark your calendars! We’re going to add new checkpoints on dareboost.com on Thursday, March 24th. In this article, I propose you to discover in details the changes of this update. So you should be able to correct your web projects before the update and to avoid any score drop on our tool!

Let’s talk about CSS quality, security and accessibility!

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Competitive benchmark and more with Dareboost

You have probably discovered Dareboost through our free website analysis tool. The professional version of Dareboost goes a lot further,  allowing you to monitor the performance of web pages, but also their technical quality.

We have just improved our monitoring features, allowing you to group several monitored web pages together. This way, you can now better organize your dashboard, and visualize the data of several monitored pages within a single graph, but also their general trends!

Several monitor on the same graph

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Website analysis: our checkpoints are evolving

Next week, new automated checkpoints will be added on our quality and performance test tool, dareboost.com. The scores of your web pages are therefore likely to evolve.
This update includes new best practices, but also improvements on existing advice!
In this article, I propose you to discover in detail the changes of this coming update.

performance best practices update

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Website Speed and Quality Monitoring with DareBoost

We have completed a major update on dareboost.com, that greatly expands the capabilities of our monitoring features.

We are proud to take the next step and offer a more comprehensive tool, always with the same goal in mind: an easy and new way to manage web performance and quality.

After a brief reminder of the absolute need to monitor your website speed, I’ll detail you the changes coming along with this update.

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Compare the speed and rendering of 2 pages

More and more of you were asking for it, so we did it :)
Comparison Tests are now available!

  • Would you like to know how your website is doing compared to a competitor, whether it is a challenger or the leader of your market?
  • Would you like to valorize your optimization work by comparing the new version and the old one of your client’s website?
  • Would you like to compare the speed of the mobile and desktop versions of your responsive website?

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Website analysis: new checkpoints

UPDATE: Best practices described in this article are now automated on dareboost.com!

Mark your calendars! We’ll add new checkpoints on dareboost.com during the second half of August.

Many of you have asked us to communicate in advance on this kind of updates, so you can correct your web projects before any score decrease on our tool

Let’s discover together these new checkpoints that will soon be automated on dareboost.com. Continue reading Website analysis: new checkpoints

Performance testing tool: Speedindex, Filmstrip

Some days ago, we talked to you about 3 useful key indicators to measure the rendering performance of your web page: the SpeedIndex, the Visual Complete and the Start Render.

Today, we are pleased to announce you that these indicators have just joined dareboost.com’s performance speed test!
I offer you to make you discover the changes that this new version brought.
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