Web applications continue to evolve at an unbelievable pace, and the architecture surrounding web apps gets more complicated all of the time. The people that maintain them have grown beyond a handful of developers from just a few years ago to highly specialized teams. Developers make constant adjustments to the code and content, and their changes get published to the live site instantly in some cases.

What tool does your staff use most to communicate? If you’re like a lot of other companies, you may have recently started using Microsoft Teams. In April of 2020, Microsoft reported having 75 million users with a push of 31 million new users due to the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. At Uptrends, we think it is important that our customers can get their monitoring alerts using the communication channels they use most, so we’ve added a new Microsoft Teams integration.

Ping is a network tool. The tool seeks out a given address over a network to check if one networked device can communicate with another device. The tool then reports on the quality of the connection based on data loss and response times. Uptrends’ new Ping Tool conducts ping tests from multiple worldwide locations at the same time. You can instantly spot localized downtime and latency issues from around the world using one simple tool.

When was the last time you checked your website’s performance? If your answer is longer than five minutes ago, you’re dropping the ball on one of the most important things you can do to improve bounce rates, Google rankings, conversions, and revenue. In this article, we go over the steps you need to take when maintaining a fast user experience.