Earn more, learn more, and realise your potential Mobile Technology email newsletter Get ZDNet's mobile news and reviews. Performance monitoring can boost business by ensuring that e-commerce sites are operating well. But IT managers must acquire the right balance of hosted and on-site tools. Alan Stevens reports There is some disagreement as to exactly how long potential customers are prepared to wait for a response before clicking away to another business site on the Web.
Some analysts say eight seconds, others say as little as three or four.
But no matter what the actual figure, it is not very long. And that makes performance of the datacentre key to the success or otherwise of many e-commerce ventures. Performance monitoring tools are essential if firms want to ensure that their sites are operating smoothly. There are a bewildering range of monitoring tools currently available, from many companies. That can make choosing the right tools very hard.