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Trackers Performance / redirect speeds (Voluum vs Redtrack) (9)

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Hi all!

I was wondering if anyone has tested the same flows with different trackers to get differences on redirect speeds?

Looking into Voluum and RedTrack as they are the ones that are more suitable to the features I need.

Cheers,
Dan.

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RedTrack is quite new player on the field, I do not remember any tests of these 2, so cannot really recommend.

But I believe both are solid trackers and will solve your needs more than enough

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@erikgyepes
thank you for your kind words.

dandan
- to my best knowledge people quite often compare the speed of trackers subjectively - there are several factors involved besides tracker redirect speed itself - You traffic source / geo, you offer server location/geo, DNS for your custom domain, location of traffic vs location of servers, scale.

So it is up to how a tracker handles your particular case.

I can speak of the cases we are aware of - those usually happen for users with large volumes of traffic who want to test like 10-50 mln clicks a day and see how RedTrack handles it compared to their current or alternative solution. We support those tests and get new customers.

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Based on my experience, the tracker itself usually isn't responsible for any significant delays in the redirection process, all that I have tried had this sorted out and their servers were optimized well enough for this to not pose a problem.

When I experienced high loading times, it was usually caused by the hosting I used for the landing pages or by the offer itself, some advertisers are not ready to take large amounts of traffic so problems might arise.

As for Voluum and redtrack, from what I know, both of them work well enough. Voluum is a steady and long running players and they invested lots of $$$ into building their infrastructure, so I guess they might work somewhat faster than redtrack... but I don't think this would really mean any significant advantage.

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Interesting opinions, thanks all.

I guess I will have to pick by features and price and avoid paralysis by analysis—which btw was one of my mistakes and learnings from my previous AM experience.

Dan

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Yeah, focus on your needs and you will choose right.

Though most of them should support all the basic features that most of us need: proper tracking with postbacks, A/B testing landing pages and offers, rules and easy optimization.

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All trackers are pretty much similar with redirect performance, but if it's a concern then you should really be looking at no-redirect style tracking anyway

The main area I consider speed to be an important factor is reporting - waiting ages for reports to load sucks and it only gets worse the more traffic you send. Voluum is the fastest I've tested at scale.

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you should consider some A/B testing using cloudflares argo routing (depends on your geo spread of traffic). Dont forget to turn off caching & proxying.
Our setup runs faster with a cloudflare setup then without.

But as everyone already said it really depends on much variables. For example if you are focussed on Brazil you should consider to have a self hosted tracker which is hosted in brazil (for example prosper202 on aws).

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This is one of the popular opinions that I wasn't able to confirm with my own tests.

I've been running pretty massive volumes in India, 2 or 3 years ago and I really wanted to squeeze every last drop of it, so I started to run various tests. But no matter how much I tried to optimize the loading times and similar stuff, a simple VPS on a US server, or even a dedicated server located in EU... they all delivered pretty much the same results compared to a DNS... and this was a test aimed at LPs, so the usual culprit in a funnel.

I know that quite a few people were able to increase their ROIs by hosting closer to their target markets, but for me it just didnt work.

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