SmartBear Launches Free Magento Plug-in to Improve Website Performance …

BEVERLY, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SmartBear
Software
today announced the availability of AlertSite for Magento,
a free plug-in for the Magento eCommerce platform that is available from
the Magento
Connect Marketplace
. With this extension, Magento users gain basic
website monitoring services, daily samples of browser performance and
selective benchmark support for free. AlertSite
is the leading website performance monitoring tool in Internet
retailing. According to new global estimates by eMarketer,
eCommerce sales hit $1 trillion for the first time in 2012.

“The Magento integration
creates thought leadership and product innovation within Internet
retailing, bringing extended value to this community.”

“We are very excited to expand the reach of our website performance
monitoring tools used by over one million users to communities such as
Magento who are making the lives of developers easier,” said Ken
Godskind, VP Monitoring Services at SmartBear. “The Magento integration
creates thought leadership and product innovation within Internet
retailing, bringing extended value to this community.”

Store performance can be a challenge and retailers need to leverage
every online visitor. Site availability, speed and user experience
optimization are crucial to online success. By using the AlertSite
solution, Magento users can now improve store results by improving
website performance and results including conversion, time on site,
bounce rates and average order sizes.

“AlertSite for Magento integrates a view of availability and performance
directly into the Magento console for free, providing valuable user
experience information,” said Marc Infield, President of
California-based Infield Design. “Response time is key on any eCommerce
site and the AlertSite extension is the simplest way to get objective
performance metrics within Magento.”

To learn more about the AlertSite for Magento extension, visit SmartBear
at the IRWD
Web Design Usability Conference, Monday, February 11 – Wednesday,
February 13, 2013 at booth #104.

The Magento
eCommerce platform
serves more than 125,000 merchants worldwide and
is supported by a global ecosystem of solution partners and third-party
developers. In August 2011, Magento was acquired by eBay Inc., and is
now a division of X.commerce, Inc. (an eBay Inc. company).

About SmartBear Software

More than one million developers, testers and operations professionals
use SmartBear tools to ensure the quality and performance of their APIs,
desktop, mobile, Web and cloud-based applications. With 5 million
downloads and counting, SmartBear products are easy to use and deploy,
affordable and available for free trial at the website. Learn more about
SmartBear, the company’s award-winning tools or join the active user
community at http://www.smartbear.com,
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