Web 2.0

The term "Web 2.0" describes a transformative force that is driving a richer, more functional user experience for web applications. More participative, adaptive, interactive, and consumer-centric, companies look to Web 2.0 functionality to enhance the user experience, drive more revenue from every transaction, and competitively differentiate.

The technologies enabling this transformation (e.g. AJAX, Flash and Silverlight) are browser-intensive applications that frequently require persistent connections, and increase dependence on IT infrastructure performance.

Because of their increased interactivity, these types of applications tend to draw attention to performance problems more readily than their "page-based" counterparts. An individual slow "Web 1.0" page might be overlooked by a user who is distracted or multi-tasking while the page is loading. A single Web 2.0 page, on the other hand, may make hundreds of server-requests throughout its lifetime, providing many opportunities to frustrate a user and decrease productivity or revenue.

TrueView's in-the-browser monitoring, coupled with its tag-and-trace capabilities, allow you to determine not only how long each interactive request took through each tier of your infrastructure (network, web service, method call, and SQL query) but it also gives you insight into how long the user's browser took to render the information received.

With TrueView's TRUE technology monitoring your Web 2.0 application, you have unprecedented visibility into the way this rich content is experienced by the end user. Because of the browser-intensive nature of these rich internet applications, it's not enough to ensure that your server-side processing is optimized – the entire application needs to be finely tuned to deliver superior performance for your end users.