The tool accepts company name as well as ticker symbol. Take a look at it here

It annoys me when I see that sites don’t support certain browsers – I know Opera only has a small share of the web browser market – about 1% apparently.

But I would have thought Google would be sure to incorporate all common browsers into its software – I spend ages checking my websites in all browser, using software like Browser Cam, its a shame Google cant follow suit!

After looking at a lot of expensive services to achieve this task, I came across a great site called Load Impact – They offer a free stress test for your website which will simulate up to 50 concurrent visitors – there are also payed for services they offer which can simulate up to 5000 concurrent users.

After testing two of my websites, I found that Nikki-fundraising could take about 30 concurrent visitors before it crashed, and Shareworld could take about 40-45 concurrent visitors. After doing these stress tests, I came to the conclusion that it will depend greatly on how much data needs to be provided in order to view a particular site – after taking the advice of Websiteoptimization.com I managed to greatly increase the speed of Nikki-Fundraising by removing alot of styling-images that we didnt really need – including changing the visitor counter to text rather than an image – as the amount of objects that need to be downloaded by visitors puts more strain on the server – since doing this, the site has been able to take more concurrent visitors!!

Unfortunately “you get what you pay for” is an apt saying in this case – I dealt with a business customer today who has three phone lines with Talk Talk, and when the latest bills arrived for each account, each bill was addressed to a different name – none of which were the account holders name. When we queried this with Talk Talk (whilst speaking to them using one of the three phone-lines on the account), we were told that because our name was not the name on the account (the problem we were phoning about) they could not discuss the account with us!

We have been advised to send in a “Change of Ownership” form (By post I might add) which requests a signature from the current owner of the  account(s) in order to change ownership – even though we (the customer) have been with Talk Talk for the past 4 years! I asked if they had a Fax machine over at TalkTalk so we could send proof of address etc, but apparently they don’t have one!