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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

RUM, however, has some limitations, including the following: RUM requires traffic to be useful. In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities. Because RUM relies on user-generated traffic, it’s hard to indicate persistent issues across the board. Real user monitoring limitations. RUM generates a lot of data.

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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. Related: Web performance for retailers How to create correlation charts How to benchmark your site against your competitors How to set up real user monitoring (RUM)

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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. Related: Web performance for retailers How to create correlation charts How to benchmark your site against your competitors How to set up real user monitoring (RUM)