Case Study: DealNews achieves faster, more reliable website and API performance with SmartBear AlertSite

See how DealNews found Web Performance Peace of Mind with AlertSite

DealNews, founded in 1997, is a leading destination for finding curated online deals from major retailers. Its site is highly dynamic, serving diverse devices and regions, and must deliver fast, reliable experiences in a fiercely competitive market—especially during peak shopping periods. To avoid losing users to rivals, DealNews needed external, geographically distributed monitoring of page load times, APIs, subdomains and CDN performance in addition to its internal tools.

DealNews deployed SmartBear AlertSite (with SoapUI integration) to run synthetic tests, full-page recordings via DejaClick, and distributed API monitoring from multiple US locations. AlertSite helped prove CDN outages, benchmark vendors to choose a better CDN, automate API checks for heavy holiday traffic, and provide historical data for post-mortems. The result was faster root-cause diagnosis, more reliable alerts and SLA management, improved site performance during peak periods, and a cost-effective, trusted external monitoring capability.

Dealnews

Brian Moon

Senior Director of Engineering