Establishing a performance budget early in the development cycle for websites and APIs is the optimum choice for keeping your websites and web services fast for all users. However, it is never too late to set a web performance budget to improve your user experience. Keeping your users in mind, a web performance budget allows you to make decisions based on your preferred page speed.
Chrome 77 dropped last week, and our 209 checkpoint locations are in the process of updating or are already using the newest version of Chrome to monitor your website. That means your Web Application Monitoring and Full Page Check performance monitors are in sync with your users with the latest and greatest Chrome browser. Is your website monitoring service current?
We’ve released our newest feature, Self-Service Transactions (SST), for the beta release. Although you can still have us take care of the scripting for you (Full-Service Transactions), with SST you write and manage your own scripts. You can use our handy visual Step Editor, write your code directly into the text editor, or interface with our API.
Do you want to improve your user satisfaction and boost your Google page rankings? You’ve come to the right place. A better user experience starts with your website’s time to first byte (TTFB). We’ve got 6 actionable tips to help you measure and improve your time to first byte (TTFB).
We’ve changed Transaction steps and Multi-step API Monitoring steps to Transaction credits and Multi-step API Monitoring credits. In short: Steps are used to group your actions in your monitor definitions, and credits are used to buy Transaction or Multi-Step API monitors. Let’s explain that in more detail.
We’re happy to tell you that we’ve released a brand new mobile app for Android and iOS! We released the first version a few months ago on Android, and we’ve since added some great new features. The new version is ready for you in either the Google Play Store or Apple’s App Store. The perfect addition to your website monitoring regime.
Previously your Uptrends monitors were either enabled or disabled; not anymore! For Professional, Business, and Enterprise accounts, you now have three options in your monitoring settings: Development, Staging, and Production mode. You can now choose between three monitor modes:
As a website or web service provider, you live and die based on your KPIs (Key Performance Indicators). In this article, we define those KPIs and help you decide which tools you need to monitor and track the KPIs you care about.
As an Internet startup, you have to put out innovative, meaningful solutions for your users. Therefore, no matter what that solution may be, you’ve got to make sure that the solution is available, functioning, and has excellent performance at launch and afterwards. To help you succeed and to avoid common web monitoring mistakes, we’ve put together a list for you.
When it comes to monitoring your user experience, it is easy to monitor and optimize just the landing pages. But, does your user’s journey end at the landing page? No. Monitoring your user journey goes deep. Each click the user makes on your site or service needs to work and be as fast and responsive as the initial page load.
