5 Tips on Getting Your Website Ready for Black-Friday to Cyber-Monday Shopping

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are quickly approaching, so now is your final time to review your prior year's company performance and do the homework. These three events, together with Winter sales, account for the highest load in internet traffic. E-commerce and mobile apps face the most traffic and are expected to generate the most revenue. Undoubtedly, e-commerce and customer trust are increasing, but so are user needs, which include both web sites and applications. The performance of websites, software, and mobile devices is more crucial than ever. To avoid Black Friday dissatisfaction, just begin improving and preparing the [...]

By |2022-10-19T16:09:40+03:00October 19th, 2022|Tags: , , , |

Load Tests and End-to-End Back-end Analysis

Even though, load testing and performance testing have different meanings in the software world, the basis is the same; to be able to fully answer the following questions. "How does the system behave under a certain load?" "What kind of infrastructure do I need within acceptable values?" "How far does this system take us with these resources?" To get these answers, you must first be able to apply similar loads and see the current behavior of the system. The next step is analysis. What Will We Analyze? The analysis part is very thorough. Because at this point, we also [...]

Load Testing Best Practices For Black Friday

As Loadium, we have gathered the load testing best practices for you under this article. Black Friday is considered to be the busiest shopping day of the year and each year, online retail sales reach significant increase. But It is always like a nightmare for retailers and makes them fret about reaching expected revenue. Next Black Friday is one year from now, and this is the perfect time to analyze what happened, learn from mistakes and make your website ready for the peak season crowds. What Is Load Testing? Load testing is a kind of non-functional software testing that [...]

By |2021-11-05T17:13:40+03:00December 4th, 2020|Tags: , , , |

Is Your Business Ready for the Peak Season?

Coronavirus is continuing to spread all around the world, with more than 40 million confirmed cases. In many locations, the number of Coronavirus cases is still increasing and some countries which even had achieved great success in taking control of the initial outbreak have also started seeing the number of confirmed cases rise again. In countries that have started to experience normalization, consumers are still on alert. Shopping behavior has completely changed, and spending intent still remains below the pre-crisis level. During the pandemic, consumers were mainly transferred to digital and omni-channels. Many shopping categories have grown more than [...]

By |2021-11-05T17:21:03+03:00November 2nd, 2020|Tags: , , , , |

Campaign Periods’ Key to Success: LOAD TEST

There is a testing principle known to those close to the test community. “100% testing of a product is not possible.” Therefore, it is necessary to plan risk or prioritization based tests that are of the project’s proper economic dimension. The load test is one of them. If you want your product or the service you provide to continue to serve your customers under high demand, as designed then a load test is one of the most important items of the activities that you need to plan that can provide information on your website performance. As Loadium team, we had a [...]

By |2020-11-10T15:23:43+03:00October 31st, 2018|Tags: , , , , |

Is Your Software Ready for Black Friday?

Black Friday is one of the days which is most awaited every year. Everyone who is a part of the internet community is bloodthirsty for Black Friday because of all the discounts and extra contents, and of course, they want to perform their shopping without a problem, as expected. Your site or app must be ready for the most crowded days of the year and must endure making your customers happy. Black Friday is approximately 3 months from now, so you better be ready for it yesterday, in case you are not, here are some advices you can follow through. [...]

By |2020-11-11T14:32:40+03:00August 15th, 2018|Tags: , , , |
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