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eXternalTest goes to CeBIT !

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

XT will be present at CeBIT in Hannover (Germany) from the 4th to 9th of March, our stand will be located in pavillion number 13 (Fixed Line & Network solutions, Wireless Technologies).

CeBIT is the most important IT and online services fair worldwide, and we don’t want to miss the opportunity for showing our services. If […]

Maintenance Windows

Friday, February 1st, 2008

We have just launched an improvement in the web tool, this new feature will allow you disable automatically some tests while your site or servers are down due to maintenance tasks, this way the availability statistics will not be affected negatively by maintenance downtimes.
So, you can program the timeframe when you will be doing maintenance […]

Improvements on HTTP Performance Tests

Friday, January 25th, 2008

For those of you who were using HTTP Performance test, we’ve developed some new features in order to give a more realistic behaviour to the tests, more similar to common browsers like explorer or firefox.
Now you can select the number of threads that work on each test, and you can select the load profile for […]

XTmobile launched

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Some of our beta testers have been testing XTmobile last months.
It’s a new way of being always informed about the status of our servers and online services.
Same way as our widget, you’ll be informed at any moment and any place about the precise status of your servers, last tests, connection time, DNS resolution, download time, […]

New design for our site

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

eXternalTest has been giving monitoring services since 2005. We’ve been always centered in product features, very customer oriented, hearing really closely their needs, and giving less importance to the design of our site. But last month we decided to renew it and here is the result.

Don’t hesitate to contact us for sending your feedback, we […]

The service’s quality affects Google’s positioning

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Any disconnection your server may suffer not only affects users trying to access it by the time your server is out of service, the problem spreads larger. A recently released new confirms the following: “A disconnection of the server may put you out of Google”.
In terms of Vanessa Fox, from Google, the most famous and […]

New Screenshots tests released

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

The recently released eXternalTest’s screenshots tests improve the tests range including a “boom” among its domain tools: the screenshot of a Web site.
Its difference with other technologies is that the screenshot is performed by a real navigator instead by using emulator. At the moment, the supported navigators are:
-Internet Explorer, 5th, 6th and 7th releases.
-Mozilla Firefox
-Netscape
Working […]

Two new test agents available

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

From now and ever, two “surveillance centres” are added to eXternalTest. To the ten already existing spread from all over the world, we have added two more access points from where to perform tests to your Internet services.
The incorporations have been located in South America and Europe, concretely in Argentina and Italy.
In this way, we’ll […]

New HTTP Performance test

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

A few days ago, we released the new HTTP Performance test, more exhaustive than the simple HTTP test. This new test performs one request for each element of the web page (related-requests, as CSS, JS, images, banners, etc), saving data about sizes and download timings. You can see the data in a very easy to […]

New test for streaming content (video/audio)

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

Since May 30th, you can use eXternalTest to monitor streaming contents offered over RTSP. The Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), developed by the IETF and published in 1998 as RFC 2326, is a protocol for use in streaming media systems which allows a client to remotely control a streaming media server, issuing VCR-like commands such […]