On May 31st, Catchpoint hosted a webinar to launch our Perigrine and Eagle releases, packed with new product features and enhancements that make our Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) Platform even more powerful.

In today’s fast-paced digital world, website speed is crucial in retaining attention. One of the ways to achieve faster website loading times is by implementing Image lazy loading. This technique ensures images are loaded only when visible on the user’s screen, reducing the initial load time and improving the website’s overall performance. In this article, we will explore the concept of image lazy loading, how it works, and the different methods to implement it on a website.

Since its inception in 1988, the traceroute has undergone several variations. You might be wondering, ‘Why so many?’ The answer is simple: achieving traceroute functionality has been a balance between security and utility. Whenever malicious actors exploited firewall and router vulnerabilities, their vendors responded with fixes and solutions which impacted the traceroute algorithms.

In this bi-weekly micro webinar series, Catchpoint and ITOps Times have partnered to explore six critical topics that are essential for ensuring Internet Resilience for your business. Explore each of the topics in the series: In this fourth segment, we’ll discuss techniques for enhancing Network and API performance by implementing Internet Performance Monitoring. Now, let’s get into the episode!

The financial impact of Internet outages on businesses is well recognized. Yet, the exact cost remains difficult to gauge due to the individual nature of each company, its environment, the industry, risk tolerance, and so on. A significant breakthrough in understanding this cost has been achieved through a recent commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Catchpoint, entitled, Increase Revenue with Internet Performance Monitoring.

IPv6 was developed in the late 1990s as a successor to IPv4 in response to widespread concerns about the growth of the Internet and its potential impact on the existing IPv4 address protocol, in particular potential address exhaustion. It was assumed that after some time as a dual-stack solution, we would phase out IPv4 entirely. Almost twenty-five years later, however, we are approaching full-scale depletion of IPv4 addresses, in part because IPv6 adoption is still lagging.

In our quest for a greener planet, we have become increasingly aware of the detrimental effects of single-use products like plastic bottles, coffee cups, and plastic bags on greenhouse gas emissions. However, there exists an ominous carbon culprit that goes largely unnoticed—the carbon footprint of the Internet.