Catchpoint, the leader in Digital Experience Monitoring, on Thursday announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Webpagetest and Webpagetest.org, an open-source web performance testing software and service.
The transaction will allow Catchpoint to strengthen and expand Webpagetest’s capabilities and Webpagetest.org’s geographical performance testing footprint, leveraging Catchpoint’s best-in-class infrastructure, adding capacity and improving consistency and quality of analytics.
With the rapid shift to SaaS and web-based applications, used by billions of consumers and enterprise workforce, businesses have struggled to manage application performance and deliver reliable digital experiences to their users. In addition, maintaining a competitive edge in the digital economy is no longer a nice-to-have but a critical business priority, said Catchpoint. In the digital economy, if a company cannot deliver fast, reliable, and consistent web app experiences to their customers and employees, their business will be negatively impacted either through customer churn or low employee productivity and morale.
Catchpoint and Webpagetest have shared the same mission from the beginning; to help web developers and ops teams deliver the best possible digital and web experience to their users. Merging Catchpoint’s enterprise-class global monitoring network infrastructure with the hugely popular web performance testing capabilities of Webpagetest will create an unparalleled web performance measurement and monitoring platform.
Patrick Meenan, Engineering Fellow at Catchpoint and Founder of Webpagetest.org
By bringing together Catchpoint’s renown command and control architecture and distributed footprint with Webpagetest web performance testing capabilities, IT teams will have the insight needed to monitor, detect, identify and resolve performance and availability issues quickly.
Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint
Patrick is a well-known web performance evangelist and a driving force behind several key web performance metrics that better capture the user experience like SpeedIndex.
