Testing is a key part of application development and helps you maintain a reliable experience for your users. But the process can be difficult to scale and is often siloed to a single team or individual that does not have broad knowledge of your application’s UI. This can lead to organizations investing in sizable test suites that do not accurately represent real user behavior.
User expectations are at an all-time high, and any performance hiccups can lead to frustrated users and lost business opportunities. To get real-time insights into their digital assets and succeed in this competitive landscape, businesses need Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) that incorporates both synthetic and Real User Monitoring (RUM). RUM and synthetics are two powerful tools that, when used in tandem, offer a comprehensive view of performance and user experience.
The security threat vector has become wider and deeper as technology has advanced. Enterprises put a series of tools in place that attempt to close up the many possible holes. But it's not all smooth sailing for everyone. Slow performance due to security measures and high overhead can impact employee productivity.
The frontend of a web application is the part that users directly interact with. It’s the last mile of the digital service you deliver to your customers and it’s directly associated with customer satisfaction and business objectives. Knowing performance metrics such as CPU or memory is helpful, but at the end of the day, what you care most about is if the user experience is affected.
Testing enables you to proactively identify and resolve issues before they break critical functionality in your application, which is essential to ensuring an optimized user experience (UX). However, if you don’t know how users are actually interacting with your application, key user journeys may go untested. This lack of visibility can lead to a proliferation of unoptimized features in your UI, causing users to drop off before completing important actions.
Do you know what your website users are really experiencing? Are they satisfied with your website's performance? Are they able to easily navigate and find what they're looking for? Real User Monitoring (RUM) is a powerful technique that can answer these questions and more. By collecting and analysing data on real user interactions, RUM provides valuable insights into user behaviour, website or application performance, and overall user experience.
When your applications are experiencing degraded frontend performance, every minute of investigation counts towards minimizing the impact of regressions on your users. That’s why we built Watchdog Insights, an AI-powered recommendations engine that augments monitoring investigations by intelligently surfacing data that sheds light on outliers in the errors and latency affecting your applications.
