'Net Features : Cotendo

Faster Page-load Times with Cotendo

Linc Wonham — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 02:00:00 GMT

Slow-loading mobile websites and applications can be significant revenue-killers for any Web business – just ask the majority of consumers.

One company striving to reduce page-load times and speed up the delivery of mobile sites and apps is Cotendo, which recently launched its Mobile Acceleration Suite (MAS) of products. Designed to accelerate mobile content and to integrate with Cotendo’s other content-acceleration technologies, MAS offers Web businesses and application developers a new way to ensure their content arrives faster and more reliably to end users’ mobile devices.

“While using Cotendo services we’ve seen up to a 33-percent performance improvement on our site,” That’s huge because our customers expect instant response when downloading apps to their handsets,” says Allan Moger, operations manager for GetJar, the world’s largest open app and entertainment store for smartphones with more than 2 billion downloads.

“Aside from the performance benefits, we chose to use Cotendo services because they understand the importance of the mobile space and are ahead of the curve in improving services for the mobile industry.”

Cotendo’s Mobile Acceleration Suite offers mobile-specific solutions that also leverage the company’s other services for content acceleration such as Dynamic Site Acceleration, CDN Load Balancing, Advanced DNS services and the Cloudlet Platform – the first CDN-integrated High Performance Cloud Application Environment.

If slow load times are getting you and your customers down, visit Cotendo for more information about the Web and Mobile Acceleration Services suites.

SEO Analytics from Cotendo

Pete Prestipino — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:18:00 GMT

Does website performance influence your SEO rankings? Absolutely and technology vendors are coming to the market's rescue with solutions which can relieve some of the bottleneck issues that can negatively impact SEM campaigns.

CDN and site acceleration services provider Cotendo has released a Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Analytics Service which provides analytics and reporting on search engine crawler activity, giving content providers the need to optimize website performance, increasingly important in improving and maintaining competitive rankings on the SERPs.

Cotendo chief technology officer David Drai said that website crawlers dispatched by search engines like Google, Yahoo! and Bing scan the entire site, including slower-loading pages which, due to their poor performance, may not get as much traffic as faster-loading pages. "Using our SEO Analytics Service, content providers can identify those less-popular pages and then quickly fix their loading problem. The result: those pages now attract more traffic, and their increased popularity boosts the site's overall SEO ranking," Drai said.

The Cotendo SEO Analytics Service includes aggregated reports of all crawler activity, crawler comparison reports, hits and error reports, object delivery time reports, error code reports, and customisable alerts.

Said Ronni Zehavi, Cotendo's CEO, "With our SEO Analytics reports, content providers are alerted to any performance problems immediately. They are ensured of always having a site whose performance earns high marks from the website crawlers -- leading to better site coverage and more traffic arriving from the search engines."

Cotendo Site Assure Claims Real-time Service, Uptime Continuity

Linc Wonham — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:00:00 GMT

Content Delivery Network and Site Acceleration Services provider Cotendo has launched its new monitoring system, a real-time, 24/7 service that maximizes Website uptime and resolves failures in seconds. Cotendo Site Assure, combined with Cotendo’s Advanced Domain Name Service, is an integrated smart monitoring and automated failover service that will give Web content and application providers total business continuity by redirecting traffic or changing the load balancing between servers.

“Site Assure is integrated with our Advanced DNS to automatically and seamlessly redirect traffic to another destination in the event of a server failure,” said David Drai, Cotendo’s Chief Technology Officer. “Site Assure’s rapid responsiveness as well as its accuracy—there are no false positives—are why a wide range of content providers, including online retailers, advertising networks, transactional enterprises, professional news and data content Websites, will leverage Site Assure to provide continuous uptime of their services.”

Beyond providing the first-ever real-time failover service, Drai noted that Site Assure also allows content providers to fine-tune their delivery strategies using customized rules that define routing policies for load balancing and site optimization. Complementing this capability is Site Assure’s real-time alerting and reporting on the performance of the customer’s monitored resources.

“For content providers, who value maintaining their reputation for a quality user experience, that’s extremely important,” he said. “For those whose business depends on quickly completing transactions, it’s absolutely essential.”