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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

RUM gathers information on a variety of performance metrics. 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).

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Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores

Smashing Magazine

It can be measured based on real data from users visiting your sites ( field metric ) or in a lab environment ( lab metric ). In fact, several user-centric metrics are used to quantify web vitals. While most of the tools covered below only rely on field metrics, others use a mix of both field and lab metrics.

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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks.

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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. Google's Core Web Vitals are a set of metrics that are intended to focus on measuring performance from a user-experience perspective. How does page bloat hurt your business?

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NEW: On-demand testing in SpeedCurve!

Speed Curve

In this post, we'll: Highlight the differences between on-demand and scheduled testing Cover the various types of on-demand testing, including some of the more common use cases we've heard from SpeedCurve users Step you through running an on-demand test Let's goooooooo! What are the two types of tests within SpeedCurve?

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What is page bloat? And how is it hurting your business, your search rank, and your users?

Speed Curve

For more than ten years, I've been writing about page bloat, its impact on site speed, and ultimately how it affects your users and your business. JavaScript – A page can have a relatively low JS weight but still suffer from JS-inflicted performance problems. It's super important to understand longtail performance.

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Getting started with web performance? Here's what you need to focus on.

Speed Curve

Build a performance culture that embraces collaboration between design and dev. Keep reading to learn how you can apply these best practices to your own site and give your pages a speed boost. At SpeedCurve we call these metrics "IX Time" and they're available on your LUX Performance dashboard.)