Case Study: NewsGator achieves faster, more responsive FeedDemon performance with SmartBear AQtime

NewsGator Keeps Customers Up to Date with AQTime

NewsGator Technologies, a Denver-based leader in RSS aggregation, acquired FeedDemon and set out to ship FeedDemon 2.0 with two goals: make it easy for new users to get started and keep it fast and scalable for power users. Rapid growth and unexpected real-world usage exposed performance bottlenecks, and with time-to-market pressure they needed a low-overhead way to find and fix hotspots quickly.

They adopted Automated QA’s AQtime profiler to measure real and perceived performance during development and beta testing. AQtime pinpointed costly string-handling routines (including an HTML-stripping function), startup callers, and suboptimal memory allocation; rewriting those parts and rearranging startup code made FeedDemon noticeably more responsive, reduced load time, and saved developer time and money so the team could focus on new features.

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Nick Bradbury

NewsGator