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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

RUM works best only when people actively visit the application, website, or services. In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities. Synthetic monitoring is well suited for catching regressions during development lifecycles, especially with network throttling. RUM generates a lot of data. Synthetic monitoring drawbacks.

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Performance audit: Lego.com

Speed Curve

We track LEGO.com, along with a handful of other leading ecommerce sites, in our public-facing Retail Benchmarks dashboard , which I encourage you to check out. A couple of things worth noting: All of the sites in the leaderboard sites are pretty speedy, so this is NOT a name-and-shame exercise. Are images optimized?

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Fixing a slow site iteratively

CSS - Tricks

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. It’s is a Google service that audit things performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices.

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