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Managing Website Design and User Experience
We discuss why ecommerce managers need to focus on both website design and user experience to create highly performing websites.
All Brains Are Pink
RapidSpike CEO Gav Winter discusses diversity in the tech industry and how we should embrace a diverse workplace.
When Third-Party Plugins Go Wild
While third-party plugins can add significant value to a website, they can also cause performance and security issues. We explain the threats plugins pose.
The World Cup Of Websites
The World Cup of websites: If the World Cup was decided on teams’ website performance, who would be lifting the trophy for the 2022 tournament?
Socially conscious consumers can be targeted with better UX
Sustainability may have a new focus: the carbon footprint of digital retailers. In response to the pandemic, more and more brands turned to ecommerce, which now makes up one-fifth of all purchases. On paper, this shift appears positive: less physical…
PCI DSS 4.0: Protecting Payment Card Processing
PCI DSS 4.0 is a major update to the Payment Card Information Security Standard, which is aimed at improving security and in turn, protecting organisations from the risks of being compromised by data theft.
The ultimate guide to website monitoring solutions
Foreword In today’s fast-paced, digital-first world, websites are critical for the success – or failure – of a brand. While they’re so crucial, they’re also very complex and require around-the-clock monitoring because let’s face it, the internet never sleeps, your…
RapidSpike 2021 Christmas Message
With 2021 drawing to a close, RapidSpike CEO, Gav Winter’s gives his 2021 Christmas message. Merry Christmas from RapidSpike!
What is Synthetic Monitoring?
Without synthetic monitoring, you can’t be sure that your website is always available, or that the customer experience is always perfect.
Performance / Real User Monitoring / Synthetic User Journey Monitoring / Uptime Monitoring / Web Vitals / Why RapidSpike
What is Website Monitoring?
Websites are crucial these days and monitoring them is just as important. We explain what website monitoring is and why you need it.
Core Web Vitals: One Test Just Isn’t Enough
Numerous factors are at play when you run a Google Lighthouse test which are the main drivers behind Core Web Vitals. We test different machines to examine how reliable single tests are.
Web Performance Is Vital
Web performance is vital, therefore RapidSpike have created our new Performance feature to deliver the key Web Vitals.