A lot of news to announce about Dareboost! First of all, we are very glad to see our team reinforced with the arrival of our Customer Success Manager. That said, let’s have a look back to a few announcements you may have missed this summer. And then talk about some nice events Dareboost will be part of in the weeks to come.
Continue reading Hiring, events and more: latest news you shouldn’t miss about Dareboost
One more proof that speed is the core of Dareboost values: Boris Schapira has joined us for only a few days and he is already on our blog for an interview! Let’s (re)discover this expert whose main mission will be to help Dareboost customers achieve their web performance goals. Continue reading Boris Schapira, our new Customer Success Manager!
Dareboost has just released a detailed user manual about our web performance testing and monitoring service. Here is a little appetizer: not less than 9 powerful use cases for Dareboost performance tools. Continue reading Mastering your Website Performance: 9 advanced use cases for Dareboost
Regarding website monitoring, 2 approaches coexist – without competing: Real User Monitoring, based on real users browsing, and Synthetic Monitoring that emulates users visits. Let’s focus on the specific benefits brought by this second approach. Continue reading Website Performance Monitoring: 5 reasons why you should use synthetic monitoring
After reading our last article about how to secure your cookies, you may (should?) already be using Secure and HttpOnly flags. As a reminder, ‘Secure’ allows to prevent a cookie to be sent on a non-secure web page, whereas ‘HttpOnly’ prevents any client-side usage of a given cookie.
It is now time to take your website security to the next level with one more attribute for your cookies! Let’s talk about SameSite instruction, allowing to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks and Cross-Site Script Inclusion (XSSI). Continue reading Secure your cookies to the next level with SameSite attribute
We are very glad to inform you that we now offer two more locations for testing your website speed. We now have 3 test locations in the Americas, with São Paulo and Seattle joining Washington DC. Continue reading Website Speed Test from São Paulo (Brazil) and Seattle (USA)
About one year ago, we were announcing an update of the quality checkpoints of our website analysis service. This update was including a new best practice related to hypertext links opening in a new window or tab by using target="_blank" attribute.
Joining Google Chrome, the latest Firefox version now supports the rel="noopener" attribute, which was one of our advised solutions. The right time for us to have a look back on this recommendation we have brought not only for better security but also for web performance. Continue reading Performance and security of target=_blank links with rel=noopener
Third-party content are parasites. Friendly ones, with – most of the time – good intentions. But parasites anyway. Let’s discover some useful tips and techniques to deal with Third Party Content and their impacts regarding your website performance and security.
Continue reading Web Performance & Security: how to master Third Party Content impacts
The Chinese web is a highly coveted market for all brands of luxury goods from around the world. But it is also a difficult sector for investments – with its limited access conditions as well as its famous Great Firewall. How do these brands manage to deal with these technical handicaps? Using its Chinese probes, Dareboost tested the web performance of 49 of these prestigious brands. Continue reading Website Speed: 49 Luxury Brands Tested in China
Your website seems fast enough to you? Are sure that your visitors share the same opinion? Through that question, we intend to talk about the huge differences of web connections among your users… and about the effects about how they will experience your website performance. Continue reading Website Speed: test it like your users browse it
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
Hello 2017, goodbye 2016! The Dareboost team wishes you all the best for this new year: success in your business and projects with, naturally, highest web performance for your pages! More than ever, Dareboost is the ultimate tool to help you improving your websites speed and quality. Here is a 2016 retrospective of the major evolutions concerning our service: you may enjoy (re)discovering some of them! Continue reading Website speed test & monitoring: Dareboost 2016 retrospective
They have been sold up to 250,000 times on the ThemeForest marketplace…But how fast are those famous WordPress themes? Dareboost have been testing 8 of these best sellers themes by monitoring their demo pages for several months. Here are the results. Continue reading WordPress: which is the fastest theme among ThemeForest best sellers?
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
We have announced it a couple months ago: our web performance testing tool now fully supports HTTP/2 and our best practices repository has been updated to handle the particularities of this new protocol. Now, let’s go back to the reasons of HTTP/2 emergence and talk about the major changes this protocol brings, and these old HTTP/1 best practices that we will have to give up! Continue reading On the way to HTTP/2: what to expect for front-end development?
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
Two very awaited features are now available for our customers within their monitoring dashboard. The ability to create and to manage custom event, and a CSV export feature for the monitoring data. Continue reading New on Dareboost: Custom events and CSV export for your monitoring data
Web performance testing tools such as Google Page Speed or Dareboost have been advising this for a while: injecting a script with document.write has a significant impact on website loading time. Let’s talk about this topic one more time, as the next Chrome update (version 54) won’t allow such scripts injections any longer. What kind of issues may you experience? What are the alternatives?
Continue reading Why you should avoid using document.write, specifically for scripts injection
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…
Continue reading Major update announcement: HTTP/2 speed test support and more
Now that we have seen how CSP can be useful in preventing injections of content within your web pages, let’s have a look on some technical elements about CSP implementation, and a few ideas about the methodology to adopt. Continue reading How to implement Content Security Policy?
Thanks to Content Security Policy, you can protect your website from numerous vulnerabilities concerning content injection. Let’s see why and how to use that simple but powerful HTTP header, now widely supported by web browsers.
Continue reading Content Security Policy to secure your website (and more)
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!
Continue reading Website analysis: new checkpoints in our test reports
Some of the most regular users of DareBoost may already have noticed it: several improvements have been added to our website for the past weeks. It is time for us to talk a little more about these new features. We hope you will discover – and enjoy – some of them!
Continue reading Review of our last updates: new features for monitoring, comparison and API
You may have already heard about Single Points Of Failure (SPOF), generally dealing with network matters. Did you know that SPOF is also an issue at front-end dev stage? Could you imagine your website to be reliant on Twitter or Facebook’s servers?
Continue reading SPOF: what if your website gets down because of third-party content?
Dareboost celebrates its second anniversary ! The perfect opportunity to offer a special gift to all our users, to announce a few informations about our business development and a new arrival in the DareBoost team !
Continue reading DareBoost: already 2 years of web performance analysis