All roads lead to Rome, but it was our first time giving a talk in Italy. And it was a great succes! Want to find the slides, read about our Baseline integration, the Zitmaxx use case or how to improve webperformance for Hyvä, you find al the resources here.
There are numerous solutions for measuring Core Web Vitals. But how do you select the right one? Learn about the differences between lab data tools like Lighthouse, field data tools like Pagespeed Insights, and real-time user monitoring like RUMvision.
By saying "Goodbye speed scores; Hello real users," Shopify is getting rid of the single Lighthouse score and switching to RUM data from real users. We can only applaud this choice. For Shopify merchants, who is eligible and what information will you still be missing?
Website speed tracking is not built-in to Google Analytics 4. This limitation is relevant since tracking real visitors' speed can reveal its impact on user engagement and conversion rates. Such data is essential for identifying website speed issues and projecting the ROI of speed-optimization work.
There are numerous tools available for measuring the speed of your website, making it difficult to choose. This article explains why you should not always rely on the most popular tool, Google Lighthouse.
Wow, a new Core Web Vitals tool in town? That sees the historical data of Core Web Vitals of your website (or your competitors)?!😉Yup, that's right! Google launched the new API (CrUX History API) and that's something to celebrate because now our extra 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 tool can show you data for the last 6 months.
With Core Web Vitals, real user experience data became popular. And everyone and their dogs started to become acquainted with pagespeed and so-called field data. As field data is based on real user experiences out in the field, it is just another word for Real User Monitoring (RUM).
It's often especially JavaScript that will be impacting your Lighthouse score. So, delaying any JavaScript feels like a good idea. And maybe you want lazyload RUMvision as well. Because despite being a monitoring solutions and giving you insights into real UX, it's still yet another JavaScript file. Let's discuss if it's safe to lazyload RUMvision.
You've launched your website, and it's live. Now what? In order to keep improving your site's user experience, you need a tool that can give you insights into how real users are experiencing your site. This is where real user monitoring comes in—it's the practice of collecting data from actual visitors as opposed to synthetic visits or non-human agents like crawlers or bots.
We get this question quite a lot. And rightfully so. If you started monitoring, then you might be ahead of your competition already. But now you want to draw conclusions from recent deploys as well. But how many pageviews do you need?
With many RUM solutions available, the biggest challenge for us was to bring something new to the market. Fortunately, experience also brings irritations and we started developing from there. What were we missing in RUM solutions that really shouldn't have been missing?
There is confusion among some people about the distinction between RUM data (Real User Monitoring) and field data. Google refers to field data, while we refer to it as RUM data.