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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. RUM works best only when people actively visit the application, website, or services. RUM works best only when people actively visit the application, website, or services. In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities.

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HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). Two-way latency is often called round-trip time (RTT).

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HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3)

Smashing Magazine

Finally, not inlining resources has an added latency cost because the file needs to be requested. Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.). Traffic for one connection must, of course, always be routed to the same back-end server (the others wouldn’t know what to do with it!).

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