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Channel 4 Suffers Website Outage During The England Vs Germany Game

September 27, 2022

Last night the Channel 4 website was down during the highly anticipated England Vs Germany Game leaving fans unable to watch the game.

Georgina Grant-Muller Read Blog: 2 min

What Is Website Regression Testing and How Can Synthetic User Journeys Help?

July 28, 2022

What is website regression testing and how can synthetic user journeys automate it? We explore both topics and how RapidSpike can help.

Tyler James Read Blog: 3 min

Meet The Team: Claire and Lucie

July 19, 2022

We recently welcomed a new Finance Team to RapidSpike. Meet Head of Finance, Claire and our Finance and Admin Assistant, Lucie.

Georgina Grant-Muller Read Blog: 3 min

How Travel Disruptions Have Affected Website Performance

June 27, 2022

We explain how recent travel disruptions have driven high levels of unexpected traffic to websites impacting key customer journeys, website speed and performance.

Emma Lees Read Blog: 4 min

New Feature: Sitemap Monitoring

June 8, 2022

Sitemap Monitoring helps you maintain visibility over your entire sitemap to ensure the correct pages rank and customers can access the intended content.

Tyler James Read Blog: 2 min

PCI DSS 4.0: Protecting Payment Card Processing

June 1, 2022

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.

Gav Winter Read Blog: 9 min

Airline Data Breaches

May 20, 2022

Travel websites, in particular airlines have been key targets for cyberattacks, we discuss the biggest airline data beaches and tactics used.

Georgina Grant-Muller Read Blog: 3 min

Why should you use Single Sign-On?

May 10, 2022

Why should you use Single Sign-On? It's simple; one less password! Single Sign-On (SSO) refers to the ability of an organisation's employees to authenticate into one system.

Tyler James Read Blog: 2 min

The Online Travel Landscape

May 5, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the travel industry unlike any other industry. Now travel and tourism is returning, we look at how the online travel industry has progressed.

Georgina Grant-Muller Read Blog: 3 min

Write an Ecommerce Customer Journey

April 7, 2022

We explain how to write one of the most common ecommerce customer journeys used by website owners to monitor their homepage to checkout journey.

Tyler James Read Blog: 3 min

Spring4Shell (CVE-2022-22965)

April 5, 2022

Spring4Shell vulnerability - what you need to know from RapidSpike.

Tyler James Read Blog: 1 min

Detect Broken Forms

March 10, 2022

Broken forms can have a massive impact on businesses, learn how to detect broken forms quickly using browser automation powered by Selenium.

Tyler James Read Blog: 2 min

Google Analytics Integration

February 17, 2022

Benchmark changes to website performance metrics against analytics data with the new RapidSpike Google Analytics integration.

Georgina Grant-Muller Read Blog: 4 min

Atomic User Journeys

February 2, 2022

Learn how to create Atomic User Journeys to create faster script writing, fault finding and save on monitoring costs.

Tyler James Read Blog: 3 min

Our Selenium Synthetic Monitoring Stack

January 20, 2022

RapidSpike's Selenium Synthetic Monitoring stack provides the most stable environment for our customers to run their Selenium scripts in.

Tyler James Read Blog: 3 min

RapidSpike Roundup 2021

December 17, 2021

2021 has been an incredible year for RapidSpike, we’ve produced some brilliant features and made significant platform changes. Here are some of the highlights in the RapidSpike Roundup 2021.

Georgina Grant-Muller Read Blog: 10 min

RapidSpike 2021 Christmas Message

December 16, 2021

With 2021 drawing to a close, RapidSpike CEO, Gav Winter's gives his 2021 Christmas message. Merry Christmas from RapidSpike!

Gav Winter Read Blog: 2 min

Log4j Vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228)

December 16, 2021

Log4j vulnerability - what you need to know from RapidSpike.

Tyler James Read Blog: 1 min

What is Synthetic Monitoring?

October 25, 2021

Without synthetic monitoring, you can't be sure that your website is always available, or that the customer experience is always perfect.

Gav Winter Read Blog: 5 min

Can You Spot the £2.5 Million Website Performance Mistake?

October 7, 2021

Looks can be deceiving. Big images are beautiful, but how harmful are they to your profit margins and how can we help you to avoid a massive website performance mistake.

Sam Jenkins Read Blog: 7 min

Upgrading: Building for the Future

August 25, 2021

Over the last 6 years we’ve developed many cutting-edge features. We’re now focused on upgrading new technologies to existing functionality.

Tyler James Read Blog: 4 min

No Sacred Cows: Agile at RapidSpike

August 17, 2021

RapidSpike’s Project Lead explains how we have embedded Agile and Scrum project management practises as standard at RapidSpike.

Channah Parker-Hamdani Read Blog: 4 min

RapidSpike Integration: Splunk On-Call

July 29, 2021

RapidSpike have an ever-growing list of integrations available to help manage incidents raised - the latest addition is Splunk On-Call.

Callum Brooks Read Blog: 2 min

Trending: A Seismic Shift in the Way We Present your Data

July 22, 2021

A big update to the RapidSpike app went live recently - a major improvement to our Page Overview dashboard.

Bryn Dodgson Read Blog: 5 min

What is Website Monitoring?

July 15, 2021

Websites are crucial these days and monitoring them is just as important. We explain what website monitoring is and why you need it.

Gav Winter Read Blog: 9 min

Football’s Coming Home, but will England’s Google Lighthouse Scores?

July 9, 2021

Football may be coming home, but will England’s Google Lighthouse scores? We take a look at the football team’s website performance and suggest tactics to help them improve.

Michael Chadwick Read Blog: 3 min

RapidSpike Website Redesign

June 15, 2021

As we’re a performance company we put our money where our mouth is and improved performance, user experience and SEO with a website redesign.

Michael Chadwick Read Blog: 3 min

The Correlation Between Competitive Sports & Website Performance

May 17, 2021

In competitive sports, getting ahead of the competition is all about marginal gains and website performance isn’t any different. We discuss what website’s can do to beat the opponents and win the race!

Paula Horton Read Blog: 3 min

The Pub’s Open, Now What? A Look into Digital Experiences in 2021

May 12, 2021

2020 was a year like no other, including a paradigm shift in ecommerce. We discuss what digital experiences look like in 2021 so far.

Channah Parker-Hamdani Read Blog: 5 min

Core Web Vitals: One Test Just Isn’t Enough

May 7, 2021

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.

Gav Winter Read Blog: 4 min

Meet the Team: Emma, Lead Generation

April 29, 2021

Meet the Team: We hear from the RapidSpike team. Emma, Lead Generation Executive reflects back on the last six months since joining RapidSpike.

Emma Lees Read Blog: 2 min

Meet the Team: Janie, Account Manager

April 8, 2021

Meet the Team: We hear from the RapidSpike team. Janie, Account Manager reflects on 12 months of lockdown, and a new career in tech.

Janie Gonsalez Read Blog: 2 min

How to Improve Core Web Vital Scores

March 31, 2021

From June 2021, Google is using ‘Core Web Vitals’ as a brand new ranking signal. We explain how to improve Core Web Vitals scores.

Georgina Grant-Muller Read Blog: 5 min

How to Measure Core Web Vitals

March 29, 2021

Core Web Vitals will become a ranking factor from June 2021. In this blog we explain how to measure Core Web Vitals.

Georgina Grant-Muller Read Blog: 3 min

Core Web Vitals: Google’s Upcoming Ranking Changes

March 23, 2021

From June 2021, Google’s ranking algorithm will start judging your website based on a new set of performance metrics called Core Web Vitals.

Georgina Grant-Muller Read Blog: 4 min

The Code Behind Magecart Skimming Scripts

March 17, 2021

A momentary mistake by hackers revealed the code used to generate malicious scripts. A unique opportunity to see the code behind the hacks.

Sam Jenkins Read Blog: 4 min

International Women’s Day

March 8, 2021

For International Women’s Day, we examine the reasons behind the lack of women in tech and explore the different routes into software development.

Channah Parker-Hamdani Read Blog: 4 min

Socially conscious consumers can be targeted with better UX

September 9, 2022

Sustainability may have a new focus: the carbon footprint of digital retailers. In response to... View Article »

Gav Winter

The Cloudflare Incident; How it affected us

June 21, 2022

This morning (Jun 21, 2022 – 06:43 UTC) Cloudflare reported a “wide-spread” outage that was... View Article »

Tyler James

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Upgrading our Google Lighthouse Service

Channel 4 Suffers Website Outage During The England Vs Germany Game

What Is Website Regression Testing and How Can Synthetic User Journeys Help?

Meet The Team: Claire and Lucie

How Travel Disruptions Have Affected Website Performance

New Feature: Sitemap Monitoring

PCI DSS 4.0: Protecting Payment Card Processing

Airline Data Breaches

Why should you use Single Sign-On?

The Online Travel Landscape

Write an Ecommerce Customer Journey

Spring4Shell (CVE-2022-22965)

Detect Broken Forms

Google Analytics Integration

Atomic User Journeys

Our Selenium Synthetic Monitoring Stack

RapidSpike Roundup 2021

RapidSpike 2021 Christmas Message

Log4j Vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228)

What is Synthetic Monitoring?

Can You Spot the £2.5 Million Website Performance Mistake?

Upgrading: Building for the Future

No Sacred Cows: Agile at RapidSpike

RapidSpike Integration: Splunk On-Call

Trending: A Seismic Shift in the Way We Present your Data

What is Website Monitoring?

Football’s Coming Home, but will England’s Google Lighthouse Scores?

RapidSpike Website Redesign

The Correlation Between Competitive Sports & Website Performance

The Pub’s Open, Now What? A Look into Digital Experiences in 2021

Core Web Vitals: One Test Just Isn’t Enough

Meet the Team: Emma, Lead Generation

Meet the Team: Janie, Account Manager

How to Improve Core Web Vital Scores

How to Measure Core Web Vitals

Core Web Vitals: Google’s Upcoming Ranking Changes

The Code Behind Magecart Skimming Scripts

International Women’s Day

Socially conscious consumers can be targeted with better UX

The Cloudflare Incident; How it affected us

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