Catchpoint to Acquire Webpagetest.org
September 16, 2020
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Catchpoint 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 infrastructure, adding capacity and improving consistency and quality of analytics.

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.

The Webpagetest.org service supports more than 1 million users per month and allows them to run instant tests from various locations and receive a detailed performance audit of their web pages and web applications.

As the new custodian of Webpagetest, Catchpoint will invest in dramatically improving the freeWebpagetest.org experience. Not only will Webpagetest.org continue to be offered as a free service to the community, but under Catchpoint, the service will be greatly enhanced. The web performance community will continue to utilize Webpagetest.org for free, with dramatically improved consistency, capacity and quality of test results.

“Today, IT teams struggle to meet web and application performance expectations and keep pace with the demands and growth from digital transformation,” said 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.”

“Patrick is a well-known web performance evangelist and a driving force behind several key web performance metrics that better capture the user experience likeSpeedIndex. He will play a pivotal role with the Webpagetest community on future developments,” said Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint. “We are committed to serving the community with an improved free tool experience and will continue honoring the open-source values of the Webpagetest community.”

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