Posts Tagged ‘baseline

In the realm of Web performance measurement and monitoring, one of the eternal and ever-present questions remains “What is fast?”. The simple fact is that there is no single answer for this question, as it it isn’t a question with one quantitative answer that encompasses all the varied scenarios that are presented to the Web [...]

In the last article in this series, the concept of baselining your measurements was discussed. This is vital, in order for you and your organization to be able to identify the particular performance patterns associated with your site.
Now that’s under control, you’re done, right?
Not a chance. Remember that your site is not the only Web [...]

Up to this point, the series has focused on the mundane world of calculating statistical values in order to represent your Web performance data in some meaningful way. Now we step into the more exciting (I lead a sheltered life) world of analyzing the data to make some sense from it.
When companies sign up with [...]

Great article on how FedEx needs automated customer tools, and humans too! [here]
The Takeaway.
For every anxious caller that FedEx diverts to its Web site, the company saves as much as $1.87. FedEx says its call centers handle 83,000 fewer calls per day than in 2000—currently 470,000 calls per day—a saving of $57.56 million per year. [...]


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