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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AlertSite

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AAlertSite, from SmartBear Software, is a website monitoring and application performance management application offering real time alerting with root-cause analytics and robust reporting.N/A

    SpeedCurve by Embrace

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASpeedCurve measures the interplay between web design and web performance. They offer user experience monitoring tools that provide insight into what visitors are experiencing.

    $143

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    AlertSiteSpeedCurve by Embrace
    Editions & Modules
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    Small
    $143
    per month 500K RUM page views & 5K Synthetic checks
    Medium
    $1050
    per month 5M RUM page views & 25K Synthetic checks
    Large
    $2,100
    per month 10M RUM page views & 50K Synthetic checks
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    AlertSiteSpeedCurve by Embrace
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—20% discount for annual subscription.
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    User Ratings
    AlertSiteSpeedCurve by Embrace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    AlertSiteSpeedCurve by Embrace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SmartBear
    AlertSite is used in our organization to monitor our website and web applications in real-time to collect the super important metrics reflecting web page load time but from the user end (E2E) and that approaches helps us to understand what our website is experiencing in real-time.
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    Embrace
    Website performance monitoring:
    • Setting performance targets and alerts
    • Investigating performance degradation (including data stored before the issue was detected)
    • Improving the team's performance awareness and knowledge
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    Pros
    SmartBear
    • The Deja-Click Recorder is an excellent tool.
    • Good UI that translates to large NOC screens well.
    • Easy Alerting and Reporting.
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    Embrace
    • Store performance checks
    • User interface is great to help analyse the data
    • Simple yet effective interface
    • Offer some insights and other tools to help make sense of the data
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    Cons
    SmartBear
    • Tool is complicated for Alert creation
    • AlertSite GUI need improvement. As compared to Datadog, it needs improvement in GUI
    • While using AlertSite, many times we faced false alerting, they need to take a look at it to improve performance.
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    Embrace
    • The interface has some confusing points, for instance aggregation setting (percentiles, median) is misleading, and doesn't do anything in some cases
    • Some additional statistical tools would super charge the charts and alerts: moving average, some more useful trend lines
    • The performance charts are amazing to compare many values (from different pages, multiple metrics) and find correlations. But the charts are barely usable when many metrics are shown (one cannot tell a line from the other). A simple UI improvement there could supercharge this use case
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SmartBear
    Reviewing other cost saving options
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    Embrace
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    Usability
    SmartBear
    Pretty good product only issue was cost
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    Embrace
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    Support Rating
    SmartBear
    I've been unable to contact support after several attempts.
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    Embrace
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    Alternatives Considered
    SmartBear
    We moved all of our services to Site24x7 after several years with AlertSite. We looked at Uptrends and Pingdom to name a few whilst evaluating options. Pingdom lacks functionality and Uptrends we found to have quite a steep learning curve. AlertSites platform and in particular the Deja-Click recorder is a standout tool against the other platforms. Sadly the upscaling costs of multi-location transactions can quickly add up.
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    Embrace
    SpeedCurve actually uses many of those standard tests, and stores the information from test runs indefinitely. This is the game changer.
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    Return on Investment
    SmartBear
    • A negative thing is Monitoring locations would have issues and cause false-positive alerts and due to that monitoring team's repetitive work has increased.
    • A positive thing that I have noticed so far is the fact that the AlertSite customers support team is trying to build relationships and go the extra mile to make sure we can overcome any occurring issues and they are quick to respond and provide sufficient guidance for implementing efficiently, and fix products issues.
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    Embrace
    • Speedcurve facilitates and empowers performance improvements that lead the higher conversion rates, user engagement and ultimately GMV
    • Through it's interface and automation, Speed curve saves hundreds of hours in investigations around performance issues
    • By facilitating performance analysis and knowledge sharing, SpeedCurve allows our teams to be more performance-aware, preventing performance issues from even happening
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