Google Speed Update: When Web Performance Impacts SEO, How Do You Ensure Your Mobile Site is Up to Speed?
On January 17, Google announced that it would be changing the way its websiteĀ search algorithm operates for mobile devices. Called āSpeed Updateā, this update wasĀ effective on July 2018 and takes into account web performance (the speed ofĀ displaying a site). This...
Loading time, Speed Index, Score Page Speedā¦ which indicator better represents the User Experience?
Web Performance covers the speed and health of your business funnels. How fast pages will load is an extremely important matter for the overall User Experience on a digital interface. Thus, in the case of an Ecommerce store it will impact its conversion rate and...
Quanta acquires the WebPerf.io RUM technology to offer a 360Ā° solution for Web Performance Management
Quanta has always aimed to support digital teams in the Web Performance Management. In 5 years, we established ourselves as reference in the French market by attracting more than 500 sites. Loyal to our ambition of always better meeting the needs and expectations of...
Why using a CDN is critical to your web performance
Here at Quanta, the one thing that concerns us is your web performance. We aim at becoming the best copilot there is, for the success of your e-commerce platform. And that is why today I decided to talk a little bit about CDNs. As you surely know, the secret to the...
What’s Up Quanta #14 – Phase 2 for the new Alerting system!
We announced it in the What's Up Quanta # 11 ... The Phase 2 of the redesign of the alerting system has finally arrived! Why improve the alerting system of our QUANTA tool, will you ask? Simply to allow you to react more and more quickly and accurately to changes in...
How HTTP2 will boost your Web Performance!
Those of you that are frequent readers of our Quanta blog know that we're always looking out for new tech innovation that can greatly improve web performance for our e-commerce clients. And that's why today, I chose to talk a little bit about the new HTTP/2 protocol....
What’s Up Quanta #13 – An avalanche of new frontend monitoring features!
Quanta's teams never rest when it comes to pushing ever further the boundaries of web performance! And what better way to be more efficient strategy-wise than to personalize the tools necessary for the creation of said strategy? As we always say, and repeat: to...
What’s Up Quanta #12 – The new Artifakt integration is out
We're really pleased to announce that you can now integrate QUANTA into your cloud-based Artifakt e-commerce website. Why create a plugin for Artifakt? Modern architectures are increasingly cloud-based, in order: to be more flexible when it comes to creation and...
Google AMP, when immediacy becomes a rule
AMP. Or "Accelerated Mobile Page". Behind this slightly barbaric acronym that is on everyone's lips lies a small revolution in the world of the web. It's actually Google's latest innovation for the optimization of digital content. Time to take a look. š AMP, or the...
French Summer Sales 2017 – Health status of the ecommerce websites
The French summer sales marathon is over for 2017! So to celebrate the end of this pivotal period for ecommerce, we decided to compile and analyze the metrics that our probes recorded during this race. Our analysis focused on business elements (conversion rate, page...
Quanta partners with OroCommerce!
We're really pleased to announce that Quanta is now an official tech partner of OroCommerce!! What is OroCommerce, you ask? OroCommerce is Oro Inc.'s new disruptive platform, specifically designed for BtoB ecommerce websites. This CMS easily integrates with...
QUANTA’s 5 tips for successful sales!
The first days of a sales period can represent up to 20% of the yearly turnover, for some e-commerce websites. So! To avoid any disturbance, here are QUANTA's 5 web performance pointers to succeed in your sales. Launch a closed-access version of the website, in...
What’s Up Quanta #11 – A new alerting system and the famous OroCommerce profiler
It's been a while since I talked to you about everything that changed in the Quanta app, well... here is an article that will fix this! The entire Quanta team has worked hard to offer you brand new features. So it was high time to talk about it. š So here we go for...
QUANTA is proud to present its new profiler for the CMS platform for BtoB, OroCommerce!
We've been saying for a while now, that QUANTA was to make a big announcement during OroVibe, the event dedicated to the new CMS for BtoB e-commerce, OroCommerce, well ... It finally happened! As Guillaume, co-founder of QUANTA, said during his conference "Managing...
What is the Best E-Commerce Platform for Web Performance? – 2017 Edition
The time has come for the "2017 edition - Best CMS Platform for Web Performance" study! For those of you that weren't there for last year's blog post on web performance, titled "What is the Best E-Commerce Platform for Web Performance?", let me catch you up on the...
Big Vibe Sponsor & Top Speaker: Quanta will be at OroVibe 2017!
Everything is in the title ! š QUANTA is very proud to announce that the team will be at OroVibe 2017 as a Big Vibe Sponsor, and that Guillaume, co-founder of QUANTA, will hold a conference during the event! What is OroVibe? OroVibe is the flagship event dedicated to...
B2B and Social, the big news of Imagine Commerce 2017!
With 7 years of existence, Imagine Commerce is undoubtedly one of the main highlights of the e-commerce worldwide season. At Quanta, we go there every year because, beyond being a unique opportunity to interact with our international customers and partners, it is also...
+32% of conversion for Jonak thanks to web performance
The weight of files has increased significantly following the evolution of multimedia and web technologies. It's quite logical actually: with better quality comes an added weight. And that's why today, everybody agrees on the fact that the web is a lot slower than it...
What’s Up Quanta #10 – Our Front-End monitoring is there!
It's not been long since we wrote a What's Up Quanta (announcing that we now have an integration with Blackfire) but considering that we love bringing to life new features, we thought that it was high time to talk a little bit about our recent front-end monitoring...
On the road to Las Vegas for Imagine 2017!
We were waiting for it and, finally, here it comes! It's time for Quanta to hit the road and fly to Las Vegas, Nevada, for the amazing Magento event: Imagine 2017! Let us take 5min to review why this is such good news (and why we're oh so very happy to be going). ;)...
What’s Up Quanta #9 – Quanta now integrates with Blackfire!
We can attest to this: you sometimes experience relatively complex application problems in your production environments. Complex enough to make your dev team go bald! Why ? Simply because the complexity of your online stores is growing with the multiplication of your...
Heads of E-commerce, it’s time to choose the red pill!
If there's one thing that's true today, it's that there really is no shortage of e-commerce websites. So it is essentialĀ for Heads of Marketing to find innovative ways to stand out in this cluttered market. To achieve that, not only do they use their creative sides to...
11 ways to optimize the performance of your Magento store’s back office!
As we've said before (and as we'll say again š ), the speed of an online store is crucial for conversion and SEO, and thus profitability. So, taking that into account, it seems to be a good idea to have some little tips to increase the web performance of an...
9 front-end pro tips to optimize your Magento storeās performance!
Welcome to the second part in our 3 parts series, about the little knacks that you could implement to boost your Magentoās performance!! Today, we're gonna talk about 9 front-end tips for your Magento store, but if you want to learn more about the server knacks that...
How Footcenter gained 23% of additional turnover thanks to webperf!
Everyone knows of the correlation between the optimization of an e-commerce website, and its conversion rate. So, instead of doing another blog post on the subject, we decided to do a little case study of our own, to convince the last sceptics of the beauty of a...
14 server knacks to optimize your Magento storeās performance!
Welcome to the first blog post, in a 3 part series, about the little knacks that you could implement to boost your Magento's performance. Web performance is key when managing an e-commerce website. Indeed, as you may already know, the speed of an online store is...
Quanta’s team is at MagentoLive Australia 2016!!
As I've announced it on Twitter, QUANTA is at MagentoLive Australia 2016!!!! It's a pretty cool conference, with people coming from all around the globe. Many come from different parts of the US (It was good to see those faces from Imagine Commerce! š ), some others...
What’s Up Quanta #8 – Profilers and Compatibility
Here at QUANTA, we never settle down š We may have brought you new features, just two weeks ago, but it's not enough for us! We aim atĀ a constant improvement of our monitoring tool, through cutting edge technology. So, even if you've already read about our Business...
Shopify and the 2016 Dyn DNS cyberattack
E-commerce has certainly been affected by last friday Dyn's DNS attack. And as a company that closely monitors the web performance of hundreds of e-commerce websites, running on several major CMS platforms, Quanta has had front row seats to the financial impact of...
What’s Up Quanta #7 – Here come the new Dashboards
It's been a while, but we've finally decided to make a new blog post about our exciting new features! It's not that until then, no new features were created; but up to this point, our amazing (yes, amazing!) tech team has been working in the shadows. But, no more. No...
What is the Best E-Commerce Platform for Web Performance?
Nowadays, e-commerce represents a key sector for companies. Last year, it amounted to $1,67 trillion of worldwide revenue. Most companies, aware of the importance of e-commerce, launched their own online stores. To build it, they often use a CMS (Content Management...
Slow Magento? Six tools to test your E-commerce storeās speed
How much money do you lose every day on your online store?Ā If it takes too much time to load, even fractions of seconds, the answer is a lot (without even mentioning the impact of a slow webpage on its SEO). In order to help you with the evaluation of your current...
How to perform a Magento Speed Test?
After meeting literally hundreds of E-commerce Directors, I found that many of them could not clearly answer that simple question āIs my online store slow or fast enough?ā. They are completely unaware of their websiteās performance, even if it is actually their...
4 Magento cache systems to speed up your Ecommerce
Searching for new optimizations in order to improve the speed of your Magento-based website and boost your conversion ? You may want to start thinking about using caches. But first, what is a cache ? A cache is a technology used to save pre-generated documents and...
Quanta on BFM Business about Magento-based storeās performance
PARIS, May 10, 2016 - Guillaume Thibaux, co-founder and CEO of Quanta Computing, appeared on BFM Business, on a show dedicated to raising awareness of the most innovative startups, to talk about the strategic issue performance represents for websites. A market full of...
Quanta Computing raises ā¬740,000 to strengthen its international coverage
PARIS, January 19, 2016 - Quanta Computing announced that it has secured ā¬740,000 in order to proceed with its wish to expand internationally and reinforce its team by recruiting more staff. The capital was raised from Kima Ventures, Xavier Nielās investment fund,...
3 keys to a successful load testing with Quanta
Your e-commerce site is evolving..Ā so does its capacity! NumerousĀ factors can have a major impact on the daily hosting capacity of a site: production works, changes in the database, increased traffic, additionĀ of new modules, back-office modifications, etc. Sales...
Why Magento will remain the first e-commerce solution in 2015
Over the past few years, Magento has been faced with fierce competition. Companies such as ZenCart, Volusion and Shopify appeared to challenge historical actors of e-commerce such as Magento. WooCommerce, a plugin that transforms Wordpress in an e-commerce store also...
ETAM earns 20% of conversion by optimising its online store
Speed completely transforms how visitors interact with a website and how they āconsumeā a blog or an e-commerce store.Ā Need proof ? Let,sĀ look atĀ a specific case, ETAM ETAM's page speed load timeĀ reduced by 700 ms Etam is a luxury lingerie brand among the top 5 sites...
Beware of the rise of I/O on an e-commerce architecture
Maintaining good performance on your e-commerce shop requires paying attention to all details. On the server side, one piece of data should be monitored carefully: the usage rate of the āDisk I/Oā. The term increase of āDisk I/Oā refers to the phenomenon that occurs...
Performance Intelligence to Accelerate Magento
The speed of a website is an essential keyĀ to improve the customerās experience and to boost conversion rates. Web giants have understood this for a long time now and they worship performance. Google is one example whose characteristically bare homepage allows an...
Is speed important for SEO?
For your website to be well referenced you must make it easily accessible by search engines. You must ācommunicateā with Google and its peers. But thatās not enough to have a good SEO. Getting good SEO performance also depends on the efforts on the speed of your site....
The 5 main reasons for the failure of an e-commerce site
The establishment of an e-commerce site may seem like a good idea but it's not so easy to attract new customers and sell them your products. Indeed, 80% of entrepreneurs starting an e-commerce site fail within the first 18 months.What are the reasons for this colossal...
Quanta Computing will host a conference at Imagine 2015
On April 20-22, Imagine Commerce 2015 will take place in the United States. This is Magentoās greatest annual event. With conferences hosted by experts and useful workshops, Magentoās entire ecosystem meets up to share and exchange. This year the event will take place...
Clicking on the back-office slows down your site and your sales!
Improving the speed of Magento requires multiple actions that are often technical, but not always. In fact, the gains in speed also take into account your habits as site administrator! Guillaume Thibaux, co-founder of Quanta Computing, spoke during Magento Live France...
Is it necessary to start from scratch to optimize the speed of your site?
Has speed become a problem for your e-commerce shop? In view of this, you have two choices. Is it better to optimize your current site, to rework it to improve its performance, or is it better to start from scratch? There is no single and definitive answer to this...
Improve Magento Performance using a CDN
You may have already come across the acronym CDN for Content Delivery Network, but do you know exactly what it means? Increasingly, Magento sites improve their performance by acquiring a CDN. It also seemed appropriate to describe more precisely how it works....
MagentoLive: News about the performance of Magento 2.0
To say the least, the day wasā¦ intense! On February 3rd, 2015, Ebayās team organized the first exhibition everĀ on Magento in France, the Magento Live in Paris. A total of 350 brands, agencies and hosts came together to share and discover the different announcements....
MagentoLive Paris 2015, a premiere in France
For the first time ever, a Magento LiveĀ exhibition will be held in France on February 3rd, 2015. In fact, this will be the first event to be officially organized on Magentoā¦by Magento! Throughout the day, we will count with the presence of big names. Quanta Computing...
Once logged onto an E-commerce site, the client goes slower!
The loading time of an Internet site is a key factor (if not the key factor) to optimize its conversion rate and online performances. On the occasion of Bargento 2014, the show dedicated to Magento, Guillaume Thibaux, co-founder of Quanta Computing, presented the...
Adapt your site to mobile users with Page Speed Insights
Do you know Page Speed Insights? This handy tool, made by Google, measures the performance of a page on mobile devices and fixed devices (desktop PCs). Site performances are evaluated and a final score (from 0 to 100) allows you to situate yourself. Page Speed...
Why does a faster site make more money?
The loading time of a website has long been considered a crucial factor for performance. For an e-commerce store, loading time is an element to be monitored carefully.Ā Indeed, because usersā patience is increasingly reducing, they prefer faster sites. If your page...
How does speed affect conversion of e-commerce websites?
If you have an e-commerce site, you probably already know the basic rules that govern your activity. āFor a product to sell, it has to be accessible.ā This principle guides your choices in terms of ergonomics, SEO, and marketing. What if you add new data? āFor a...
5 Tips for accelerating your site and improving the SEO
A websiteās speed and its loading time are essential for a visitor that arrives to said website through a search engine. Speed is a parameter that can influence your SEO.Ā Google itself says it: āA site that appears in a search result with a slow loading time in...