🎂 This week, the WH website celebrated a 30th birthday. I looked at basic performance details, but added a few more things: 🔸 The project was spearheaded by the *man who invented the internet* himself, Al Gore. 🙃 🔸 It launched during the Clinton Administration, but his v3 looked like this: clintonwhitehouse3.archives.… 👀 dayum 🔸 A funny write up here at yr 20: washingtonpost.com/news/the-… 🔸 anyhow on the performance side, things faired *fine* 🔸 a 36 req site initial *should* be manageable 🔸 a ~1MB load shouldn't be too harsh to manage either 🔸 Most of that weight came from GTMs, and they 'preconnect' two of the domains, but also seems where the TBT comes from. 🔸 shockingly, 2nd most weight came from FONTS. 🔸 Speaking of fonts, they preload 7 fonts and not all seemed critical. 🤔 🔸 The LCP (image of 4 leaders) seems at mercy of a slower load. Trey've preloaded 7 fonts but didn't considered it for that image. Could/should have been a candidate 🏁 I know that the @WhiteHouse website isn't where all services are discovered, but keeping it simple, light, accessible should certainly be a goal, and they mostly do that, as state/federal sites should as best as possible. #ecommerce #webperformance #sitespeed #webperf #perfmatters #corewebvitals #pagespeed #rum #realUserMonitoring

This is part of the story that Henri and I will share at All Things Open next week. Using open source data sets in making learned decisions in dealing w/ web performance. Join us next week for this talk ✨ A Web Performance Story ✨ 🔗 2024.allthingsopen.org/sessi… #ecommerce #webperformance #sitespeed #webperf #perfmatters #corewebvitals #pagespeed #rum #realUserMonitoring #allThingsO

🚨 Struggling with user frustration? Use @Middleware_Labs' RUM to track behavior, optimize performance, and boost satisfaction with real-time insights! To know more: middleware.io/blog/how-can-y… #UserExperience #RealUserMonitoring #DigitalTransformation #Middleware #RUM

🚀Transform data into action with Real User Monitoring. Click on the link below to learn how you can use KloudMate to visualize #RUM data and unlock its full potential. docs.kloudmate.com/what-is-r… #realusermonitoring #devops #userexperience #performancemonitoring #userengagement

🚀 Aaaand we just dropped 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒍-𝑼𝒔𝒆𝒓 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 (RUM) Beta! 💣 lnkd.in/d4xNpcP3 Documentation: lnkd.in/dSQxsfX9 . . . #apm #observability #realusermonitoring #rum #webvitals #sessionreplays #userexperience

🎥 Check out this video on Web Vitals with Coralogix! 🎥 #WebVitals #PerformanceOptimization #ErrorTracking #BotDetection #RealUserMonitoring bit.ly/4cTyDk7

Explore the power of #RealUserMonitoring in our @Coralogix blog! 🌐 #RUM brings you closer to your users, offering insights to enhance their digital journey. From e-commerce to news platforms, learn how RUM can optimize performance and drive engagement. bit.ly/3VDhfKU

Begin your #RealUserMonitoring journey with Coralogix! 🌐 This short video by Chris Cooney highlights how our RUM Integration Package offers a straightforward setup for comprehensive error tracking and system analysis. #ErrorTracking bit.ly/4cE2VIb

🌟Pleased to see our friends at #Checkly building out more integrations with #Coralogix for comprehensive and seamless #RealUserMonitoring and #SyntheticMonitoring. Check it out here 👉 bit.ly/3IRmCyB

Hey friends 👋 Let's make the web fast 🚀 We've got the easiest way to track your Core Web Vitals, understand real-user performance, and boost your PageSpeed. Here's what our customers say: "I love Request Metrics! It gives me the easy real-time monitoring I need to improve my site and ace my Core Web Vitals." It's easy to install and free for small sites. Ready blast off? #webperf #perfmatters #corewebvitals #realusermonitoring

🚨 6 Major Flaws in @Google Lighthouse 🚨 🔍 Everyone uses @Google Lighthouse, right? It generates comprehensive reports, which give you actionable, user-centric metrics, and they are really easy to run and analyze. So why not? Well, using Lighthouse reports as your only or ultimate performance measure has several serious flaws. But the biggest one? When a measure becomes the goal, it ceases to be a good measure of anything. So keep these limitations in mind when using Google Lighthouse as a performance benchmark: 🖥️ Client-Side Bias: Lighthouse ignores server-side performance metrics, leading to a skewed measure of overall site performance. 📊 Synthetic Testing Flaws: Lighthouse tries to predict the user's experience. But we all know user's aren't that predictable. The absence of real user monitoring means that LH assessments operate in a vacuum, devoid of context like network conditions, user devices, and browsers. 🔢 Score Obsession: Chasing high Lighthouse scores can lead to overlooking user-centric or functional website aspects. 🔄 Inconsistency: The variability in Lighthouse results can lead to misguided optimization efforts, and can lead to a false sense of objectivity. 🔄 Outdated Mobile: Lighthouse’s “mobile” audit setting simulates horrible 3G cell service, when most of the world has switched to LTE or 5G. Of course 3G “mobile” scores are bad! But are they relevant? 🤖 Tech Over User: Lighthouse’s technical focus ignores crucial UX elements, compromising user satisfaction. Laws of UX > Performance every day of the week. lawsofux.com/ 🧂 One-Size-Fits-None: Lighthouse's generic recommendations can never suit all websites' unique contexts and needs. 🚀 False Sense of Achievement: High Lighthouse scores can give a misleading sense of site optimization, ignoring non-measured or non-measurable (but still important) aspects. So do I beat myself up about having performance scores of < 100 in all categories? Not really. What I try to do instead is continually optimize website landing page copy to make sure I’m speaking to both clients and developer in the right way. #GoogleLighthouse #WebPerformance #WebDevelopment #TechTalk #DigitalMarketing #SEO #UserExperience #WebDesign #WebsiteOptimization #UXDesign #TechInsights #PerformanceMetrics #ServerSide #ClientSide #SyntheticTesting #RealUserMonitoring #UXUI #WebAnalytics #TechChallenges #WebsiteAudits

Announcing the launch of Real User Monitoring (RUM), a powerful tool that enables developers to visualize and understand how users experience their products. Take a look to get started middleware.io/blog/real-user… #middleware #observability #realusermonitoring

🔓Unlock the power of real user monitoring with Applications Manager. Read our blog to learn more: zurl.co/XYiH #RealUserMonitoring #APM #ApplicationPerformance #EUM

Hdfc life is where the real drama begins after you've hit the payment button 😂. Good use case for real user monitoring to catch these horrible JS errors. @HDFCLife_Cares #UserExperienceMonitoring #RealUserMonitoring

How long would you wait for a home page to load? Check out your favorite website and see how quickly it loads. #realusermonitoring

Are the Apdex thresholds in #AWS #CloudWatch #RealUserMonitoring (RUM) customizable by URL? 2 seconds is probably too much for (a cached) home page. 8 seconds is normal for a payments microservice that has multiple dependencies. I wouldn't want to receive a ton of false alerts.

When it comes to #RealUserMonitoring in web applications, @perfclarity wrote the book on it! eginnovations.com/blog/what-… #SRE #APM #Observability

Chrome dev tools is great. You can profile your web page and ensure it works on your laptop. How do you maintain the same visibility in production? #SREs and #ITOps need #RealUserMonitoring. Here are 5 browser APIs that can turbo charge your #frontend #observability. 🧵↓

This company had Facebook #ads running... but someone forgot to add fbclid to the #caching rules, ouch. 😬 Luckily we've spotted this right away with some #realusermonitoring

Ever wonder whether IPv6 🐰 is faster than IPv4 🐢 ? We did some data analysis pansift.com/blog/is-ipv6-fas… using @pansifter to reveal some surprising results (criticism welcome) 📭 #ipv6 #ipv4 #dem #rum #realusermonitoring #wifi #assurance