PacketZoom launches Mobile IQ performance analytics for free
Tuesday, September 12, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
PacketZoom, the company re-defining mobile application performance via in-app mobile networking technology, today announced the launch of Mobile IQ, a free mobile analytics tool that enables app developers to analyze, troubleshoot and control app performance in real-time. Integrated with Mobile ExpresslaneTM as part of the PacketZoom platform, Mobile IQ makes PacketZoom...
Build a mobile API ecosystem that is high performing and reliable
Saturday, September 2, 2017 by Shlomi Gian
Application Program Interfaces (API's) represent an effective way to build and manage mobile services. By using API's - a set of routines, protocols and tools for building software applications - application developers no longer have to buy technology software or hardware. Instead, they can simply plug into a growing open ecosystem of API-driven services. It is simple t...
Stop masking your crappy apps
Wednesday, July 19, 2017 by Omed Habib
This may come as a surprise, but the “close door” button in an elevator does absolutely nothing to make the door shut faster. It’s purely a psychological ploy to ease the minds of impatient riders. It tricks them into thinking that they’re speeding up their ride when in reality it is solely designed to calm their nerves during unwanted seconds spent waiting.Developers h...
Amos Ben Yaacov hired as PacketZoom's General Manager EMEA
Tuesday, July 18, 2017 by Richard Harris
PacketZoom, a leader in mobile application acceleration, announced today that it has expanded to Europe to help accelerate mobile app performance in the region. The company has hired industry veteran Amos Ben Yaacov as its new General Manager EMEA to oversee growth throughout Europe and bring PacketZoom’s proprietary app analytics, controls and acceleration technology t...
PacketZoom ranks news and media apps for their speed
Tuesday, July 4, 2017 by Richard Harris
Studies have shown that a majority of consumers expect app content to download in 4 seconds or less. But PacketZoom’s new data shows that most of the major news apps take much longer than 4 seconds to download the app’s homescreen. Only BBC News and Top Buzz came in under 4 seconds, while NYT, USA Today, WSJ, TechCrunch and others were much slower. That’s a huge failing...
PacketZoom expands its offerings to SEA
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
Slow app speeds are a major problem for Southeast Asia, where a recent Digitimes report found that 3G/4G mobile broadband Internet access was expected to reach just 60% in Southeast Asia in 2017, compared to 81% for the United States and more than 90% for countries such as Japan and South Korea. PacketZoom’s own Mobile Observatory report also found a high number of netw...
Why you should make your gameplay fast (or game over!)
Monday, June 12, 2017 by Shlomi Gian
Countless mobile game publishers have tried to formulate the winning recipe for successful mobile games. Some of them seem universal and straightforward, while others are controversial or genre-specific. Not surprisingly, the indisputable ingredient that is both fundamental and critical to a mobile game’s success is simply performance. It affects every stage and each co...
Why Fast Loading Apps and Mobile Websites are Totally Different Beasts to Tame
Friday, March 11, 2016 by Jeff Kim
It’s becoming somewhat passé to trumpet the gentle fading of the mobile web, as defined by browser-based activity, while simultaneously heralding the clear-cut triumph of apps as the dominant center of mobile user engagement. Certainly the facts bear it out: separate studies by comScore, Flurry Analytics and Forrester Research have found that mobile users spend bet...
Mobile Application Usage Continues to Redefine Performance
Friday, October 2, 2015 by Joe Schulz
With both mobile device usage and user expectations continuing to escalate, application performance is becoming more important than ever. At the same time, the complexity of the devices themselves, paired with rising security precautions that are locking users out of public Wi-Fi networks, are making it more challenging for developers to ensure consistent performance un...
Kwicr Helps App Publishers Increase Mobile App Performance Across Networks
Thursday, April 2, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Kwicr is helping developers overcome issues of app performance with its new Mobile Delivery Network (MDN), recently released out of beta. Delivered as a cloud-based service, Kwicr’s MDN provides mobile developers with the ability to directly impact the performance of their apps across any cellular or Wi-Fi network on iOS and Android devices. Designed to complement ...
New Relic Insight’s Platform to Provide Real Time Data for Mobile Apps
Friday, March 13, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
New Relic is extending its Insights’ platform capabilities beyond analyzing data from backend applications that run in a data center or in the cloud to now include real-time data generated by the mobile apps running on smartphones. The new functionality is currently in private beta.In addition to using data from the New Relic APM, New Relic Insights will be able to help...
An Introduction to Performance Testing in a Continuous Delivery Environment
Monday, December 1, 2014 by Caleb Billingsley
Increasingly for all applications, but especially for mobile apps, performance is king. We have entered an era of near-zero user tolerance for poor or slow performing applications. Complicating matters, applications are becoming increasingly complex, and most rely upon multiple third-party components and services. In many cases, these services are interdependent upon on...
Crittercism Enters Beta with its New Enterprise Mobile Transaction Management Platform
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 by Richard Harris
Earlier this year we reported that Accenture expanded its footprint in enterprise mobile with its minority investment and licensing agreement with Crittercism and its mobile app performance management (mAPM) platform.Now Crittercism has released in beta a new transaction management solution optimized for mobile and connected apps. Utilizing Crittercism's APM p...
Control the Performance of Your App With Kwicr: The Worlds First Mobile Delivery Network
Thursday, July 10, 2014 by Richard Harris
Have you ever had one of those moments when you wanted to slap your head and shout “How smart is that!” We did that after visiting with the people behind Kwicr. They solve a common problem, offer a unique and easy to integrate solution, all backed by very complicated science.The ProblemThere are a broad range of network impairments that normally inhibit the reliable del...
AQuA Releases New Performance Testing Criteria for iOS and Android
Wednesday, July 9, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The App Quality Alliance (AQuA) has released its new Performance Testing Criteria for Android applications and Apple iOS apps. AQuA is a global association focused on helping the app development industry continually improve and promote mobile app quality, across all platforms.Performance Testing Criteria includes six tests which analyze the network performance...
Aternity Mobile APM for App Developers Now in GA: No cost, Tag free Mobile App Monitoring
Thursday, June 5, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Aternity, a provider of Workforce APM solutions that monitor any application on physical, virtual, and mobile devices, announced the general availability of its Mobile APM for App Developers last week.If you are building mobile apps or are responsible for mobile app performance, you can take advantage of this tag-free, SaaS offering to instrument mobile apps for diagnos...
Aternity Provides Insights Into Managing Mobile App Performance
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Managing for mobile application performance management (mAPM) is a cornerstone of a successful mobile strategy. Companies that successfully implement mAPM will experience faster applications while dramatically reducing business disruptions and increasing user productivity.Aternity’s mAPM products allow companies access to a user-centric vantage point which closes the “V...
Differences between Testing and Monitoring App Performance
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 by Ofer Ronen
A recent story by Pulse.io compares testing and monitoring mobile app performance, and why both are important aspects of mobile app development.There are two stages associated with optimizing app performance; one stage is before the app is released (i.e. testing performance), and the other after it is released (i.e. monitoring performance). The ...
Mobile Performance Testing Across the Transaction Lifecycle
Thursday, February 6, 2014 by Joe Schulz
One of the
challenges for companies developing mobile applications is to ensure the app
will offer consistent performance across the entire transaction lifecycle (app
server, networks and device). Failure to do so can result in extreme user
disappointment.Equation Research conducted an online study about mobile app usage,
expectations and experiences. Of more than ...
