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Brewing a GREAT beer is much harder. Over the years my beers improved by trial and error. My beer went from drinkable to OK. But I couldn't match the beers I was buying. I wanted to brew at least as good as commercial breweries.

Recently I bought a smartwatch. Most smartwatches measure your heartbeat, your speed and your distance, but I bought a specialized sports watch. A sports watch measures a lot more like stride length, cadence (running rhythm) and oxygen level in your blood.

I found the website of Monique, one of my suppliers, to be really slow. At my suggestion Monique let us perform our free scan. And got herself a big scare. It takes almost 7 seconds before a new visitor sees her homepage. She's already lost 70% of her visitors before they even see her homepage...

The economy is cooling down a bit. My customers see their visitors holding back with purchases. That makes the speed of your website or shop even more important to retain more visitors and to have those visitors buy more. In other words, your site needs to fast enough to keep converting.

Are you going to meet them in the final weeks of this year? In this time of year everybody is trying to get you to set your goals for next year, but to set realistic goals for next year you need to know how well you met this years goals and why. If you don't you're not setting goals but making...

One of my customers is experiencing slowness in their entire infrastructure, especially in their helpdesk application. All specialists form all suppliers have looked at the problem, nobody has identified the cause. 'It's not us'

Do you sometimes have 'sudden' or 'spontaneous' changes? An application that's suddenly very slow, without any reasonable explanation? Resulting in overtime, stress and sleepless nights?

Are you used to traffic jams every morning? How much time would you gain if traffic kept moving? Every day you're in more traffic jams than you know. They are electronic. It cost you, your employees and your customers a lot of time. And hence a lot of money.

Your IT department insists everything is OK. All their lights are green and they're meeting the SLA's you agreed on with them. And still your customers and users are waiting a long time before your applications and websites respond. Your business needs to work efficient It's nice when the technology...