This Week in Website Performance is a weekly feature of the Monitis.com blog. It summarizes recent articles about website performance. Why? Because your friends at Monitis.com care.
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This Week in Website Performance is a weekly feature of the Monitis.com blog. It summarizes recent articles about website performance. Why? Because your friends at Monitis.com care.
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It has been talked about many, many times, so now it is naturally widely-known that any application, especially one that’s in production, must be monitored. When monitoring, it is important not only to evaluate the current status of the application, but, even more importantly, to predict future potential error situations. It is already standard practice that application programs write log files. These usually contain various information from many different points in the application.
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In a previous article we introduced the JBoss JMX monitoring capabilities and the Monitis JMX agent. Since most JEE web applications store data in relational databases accessed through JDBC, and the database is the most frequently cited source of performance bottlenecks, let’s take a closer look at how Monitis can help you keep tabs on your connection pools.
Once you have installed the .WAR file in your JBoss application server, follow these steps to setup your monitors:
Step 1: Open a web browser and navigate to http://<server-name>:8080/mon_jmx_agent. On the login page, enter your Monitis credentials. The JMX agent will use these credentials to authenticate against your Monitis account:
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Web page performance as opposed to website performance is a bit more of an intricate job requiring familiarization with what is actually served on your website and how your web pages are woven together.
If we’re talking about website performance – we most likely refer to web server performance – how fast requests are being served or what’s the percentage of failed requests for instance.
Opposed to that, web page performance, or at least what I am referring to is the equivalent of asking the following invaluable questions:
And guys, for this, there is a solution. It is a really handy utility called jiffy-web.
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Google Analytics (GA) is a free service provided by Google for collecting statistics about website visitors. The product is currently in use by around 57% of the 10,000 most popular websites across the globe. GA can track visitors, sessions, traffic sources, goal conversions, page performance metrics and more.
GA is implemented by including what is referred to as the Google Analytics Tracking Code (GATC), and is a snippet of JavaScript code that the user adds onto every page of website. This code collects visitor data and sends it to a Google data collection server.
Monitis’ GA Monitor is a java package that permits the creation of a Monitis custom monitor for viewing Google Analytics on the Monitis Dashboard. This extension of the Monitis API was necessary due to the fact that every website with a lot of traffic uses Google Analytics statistics for analyzing visitor’ traffic — as well as real end-user experience metrics, such as average page load. So, Monitis has extend the general API with a new version expressly for Google Analytics clients.
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Monitis GFI is a specialist provider of web and Cloud monitoring services that include website monitoring, site load testing, transaction monitoring, application and database monitoring, Cloud resource monitoring, and server and internal network monitoring within one easy-to-use dashboard. Over 100,000 users worldwide have chosen Monitis as their provider of choice to increase uptime and user experience of their services and products. What makes Monitis' solutions different is that they are fast to deploy, feature-rich in technology and provide a comprehensive single-pane view of on-premise and off-premise infrastructure and applications.