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Top 5 Key Performance Dashboards

Bryn Dodgson, May 14, 2019

We collect lots of great data on your site, in this blog we discuss how to measure performance with 5 key dashboards.

NEW FEATURE: RapidSpike Insights

Georgina Grant-Muller, May 3, 2019

New Feature-Insights! Insights scores your website on a variety of criteria and gives you recommendations on how to enhance your digital ecosystem and improve your overall customer experience.

Fantastic Data Breaches and How to Prevent Them Event

Gav Winter, March 26, 2019

Magecart attack websites, digital platforms & e-commerce 3rd party supply chains to steal our data. Our aim is to increase awareness on Magecart attacks, therefore we’ve created an event for Leeds Digital Festival.

Real user monitoring: Who wants to monitor the average experience?

Gav Winter, February 12, 2019

We discuss the difference in monitoring real user experience with averages and percentiles.

App Design and Feature Update

Bryn Dodgson, January 16, 2019

A new version of RapidSpike is due to be released in the next few days. Here’s what’s changed, and what’s new.

RapidSpike Year Rundown

Gav Winter, December 20, 2018

2018 has been an amazing year for RapidSpike, here’s this year’s rundown on our brilliant digital experience monitoring platform.

Detecting Data Breaches by Example – Vision Direct

Sam Jenkins, December 10, 2018

Read: 10 min

Watch as we purposely infect a website with the malicious code used in the recent attack that resulted in the loss of financial data of thousands of people.

Google Lighthouse Audit

Bryn Dodgson, November 29, 2018

We've added Google Lighthouse Audits to the RapidSpike Intelligent Page Monitor, so you now get even more powerful data when testing and monitoring your pages.

One Planet York: Data Breach Update

Gav Winter, November 27, 2018

RapidSpike would like to make a statement about how one of our developers assisted the City of York Council with a potential data breach on their One Planet York mobile app in early November.

Fantastic Data Breaches (and how to defend against them)

Gav Winter, November 22, 2018

RapidSpike now has a way of detecting data breaches in under 5 mins at the highest level of cover, reducing the average detection time down from 12 days.

Introduction to Digital Experience Monitoring

Robin Hill, November 14, 2018

Digital experience monitoring is an availability and performance monitoring discipline that supports the optimisation of the experience of customers as they interact with applications and services.

Eating dog food can help you be a better leader

Gav Winter, October 17, 2018

Dogfooding can help you understand what you have, help you set your future direction and understand the challenges your team face on a day to day basis.

Ubuntu 16.04: How to manually compile PHP 7.2 with ZTS enabled and the pThreads module installed

James Tyler, October 5, 2018

Explaining how to manually compile PHP 7.2 with the necessary options to enable ZTS and install pThreads, giving you access to true multi-threading in PHP.