Speed Curve

AUGUST 21, 2017

These metrics are available right now to SpeedCurve users. We like Speed Index (which is why we've included it in SpeedCurve ), but because it's dependent on how the page is built, it's not a one-size-fits-all metric. If you're a SpeedCurve user, these core Hero Rendering Times are already sitting in your Sites dashboard.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 31, 2016

We're excited to announce SpeedCurve's RUM product, LUX. SpeedCurve's mission is to help designers and developers create joyous, fast user experiences. Now that SpeedCurve has both synthetic monitoring and RUM, we can mash those up to give better insights. You can see SpeedCurve RUM in action by viewing the LUX demo account.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. SpeedCurve can go even deeper by distinguishing between first- and third-party scripts.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Here's how to add custom timers in SpeedCurve.) That was before pages filled up with dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of analytics tags, tracking beacons, and other third parties that silently push out your total load time. Custom metrics are the gold standard. Twitter has used custom timers to create a Time to First Tweet metric.

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

Your site has a number of people contributing content, such as unoptimized images and third-party tags that have the potential to seriously hurt the speed of your pages. This can be especially handy if you have a lot of third-party tags on your pages, as third parties can be a heavy contributor to excessive Long Tasks time. >

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Speed Curve

JUNE 4, 2023

You may already know that SpeedCurve lets you test multiple URLs for a site across a wide selection of browsers , devices , connection types , and geolocations. You may also know that SpeedCurve lets you add synthetic scripts to your test settings , which lets you easily do things like simulate a repeat view or block a third party.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Not surprisingly, most of the conversations I've had with SpeedCurve users over the last few months have focused on improving INP. My favourite place to start is with the Web Vitals heatmap on SpeedCurve's RUM > Performance dashboard. We're currently working on adding full attribution for INP to SpeedCurve.)

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 7, 2020

In my role here at SpeedCurve, I've talked with hundreds of our customers about how they do performance. Here's how you can use SpeedCurve to set performance budgets and alerts. Your SpeedCurve third-party dashboard gives you the ability to monitor individual third parties over time , and create performance budgets for them.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Keep reading to find out how we set up these benchmarks, and how you can mine our test data – even if you're not a SpeedCurve user – for your own performance research. Teams at media organizations are tasked to collect a huge amount of user data, so we see a lot of tracking and analytics tags. How awesome is that?!

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Recommendations can come out of audits from consultants or from automated tools like Lighthouse (or SpeedCurve, of course). Yes, it's true that when they impact your performance, there is little you can do to make them faster, short of removing the tag or throwing the kill switch. That withstanding, you are a product manager.

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

This is true for SOASTA's mPulse , WebPageTest , and SpeedCurve. Here's sample code for capturing this custom metric: performance.mark("stylesheets done blocking"); The key to this snippet is making sure that it's placed below all the stylesheet LINK tags in the page. Custom Metrics in SpeedCurve. Sample Custom Metrics.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. web-vitals library can collect and send Core Web Vitals to Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager or any other analytics endpoint. SpeedCurve , New Relic — the tools provide synthetic testing, too).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. SpeedCurve , New Relic — the tools provide synthetic testing, too). You could use PWMetrics , Calibre , SpeedCurve , mPulse and Boomerang , Sitespeed.io , which all are great options for performance monitoring.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. SpeedCurve , New Relic — both tools provide synthetic testing, too). You could use PWMetrics , Calibre , SpeedCurve , mPulse and Boomerang , Sitespeed.io , which all are great options for performance monitoring.

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