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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). RUM, however, has some limitations, including the following: RUM requires traffic to be useful.

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Why you need to know your site's performance poverty line (and how to find it)

Speed Curve

Background For this new investigation, I selected four sites that experience a significant amount of user traffic. Poverty lines emerged for both Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint I expected the results for Start Render, as it's been around as a page speed metric for many years, and has been proven to correlate to business metrics.

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Why you need to know your site's performance plateau (and how to find it)

Speed Curve

Background For this new investigation, I selected four sites that experience a significant amount of user traffic. Plateaus emerged for both Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint I expected the results for Start Render, as it's been around as a page speed metric for many years, and has been proven to correlate to business metrics.