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
Website Performance Monitoring: 5 reasons why you should use synthetic monitoring
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
Secure your cookies to the next level with SameSite attribute
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
Website Performance Benchmark: brand-new comparison reports on Dareboost
The first version of our comparison tool has been released about 18 months ago. We’re very glad today to announce a significant upgrade of this feature, now allowing to compare up to 12 web pages at a same time (against only 2 before). Another improvement comes with the charts of groups for monitored pages, giving access to comparison report by clicking any dot on the chart! Continue reading
Website Speed Test from São Paulo (Brazil) and Seattle (USA)
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
Performance and security of target=_blank links with rel=noopener
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
Web Performance & Security: how to master Third Party Content impacts
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.
Website Speed: 49 Luxury Brands Tested in China
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: test it like your users browse it
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 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 speed test & monitoring: Dareboost 2016 retrospective
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
WordPress: which is the fastest theme among ThemeForest best sellers?
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