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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