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Even with thorough preparation, the holiday traffic can bring unexpected challenges. To stay ahead, set up dashboards and alert systems using tools like Grafana, Datadog, or New Relic to monitor platform performance, track errors, and detect anomalies. Additionally, leverage analytics tools such as Google Analytics or Mixpanel to identify drop-off points and optimize the customer journey.
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Nutrient
Nutrient - The #1 PDF SDK Library. Bad PDFs = bad UX. Slow load times, broken annotations, clunky UX frustrates users. Nutrient’s PDF SDKs gives seamless document experiences, fast rendering, annotations, real-time collaboration, 100+ features. Used by 10K+ devs, serving ~half a billion users worldwide. Explore the SDK for free.
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Even with thorough preparation, the holiday traffic can bring unexpected challenges. To stay ahead, set up dashboards and alert systems using tools like Grafana, Datadog, or New Relic to monitor platform performance, track errors, and detect anomalies. Additionally, leverage analytics tools such as Google Analytics or Mixpanel to identify drop-off points and optimize the customer journey.
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The goal of any business is to build customer trust and encourage repeat purchases. To achieve this, streamline your checkout process by reducing the number of steps, enabling autofill for payment and shipping details, and supporting multiple payment options to minimize cart abandonment. Additionally, leverage tools like Algolia or Lunr.js to provide a robust and intuitive search experience, making it easier for customers to find what they need quickly.
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Apache JMeter
Apache JMeter open-source load testing tool for analyzing and measuring the performance of a variety of services
Before the holiday surge strains your system, simulate the traffic using tools like Apache JMeter, k6, or Locust to identify bottlenecks. This will help you analyze your system limit and establish thresholds for scaling. After identifying these thresholds, configure autoscaling on your cloud platform (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure), content delivery networks, and serverless architecture to dynamically handle traffic, maintain global accessibility, and manage resources.
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Grafana
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Even with thorough preparation, the holiday traffic can bring unexpected challenges. To stay ahead, set up dashboards and alert systems using tools like Grafana, Datadog, or New Relic to monitor platform performance, track errors, and detect anomalies. Additionally, leverage analytics tools such as Google Analytics or Mixpanel to identify drop-off points and optimize the customer journey.
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Additionally, optimize your site’s loading time and confirm it is fully responsive to mobile devices, as most traffic typically comes from mobile devices. You can also use tools like Lighthouse to identify and fix speed issues.