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Request Metrics

Tracking your Core Web Vitals automatically

Request Metrics Launch Week Day 2 - Core Web Vital Tracking Real-time Core Web Vital tracking. This is a game-changer. Request Metrics gives you real-time information about the Core Web Vitals, as your real-users experience them — everywhere in your website. AND we include the context about WHY something is slow, and where to look, so that the data is actionable and you can fix the problems.

Trying and failing and trying again

Starting software products is hard, and it’s easy to make mistakes. We’ve started a lot of products – and we’ve made a whole lot of mistakes along the way. But that’s not going to stop us. We’re stubborn like that. Today we are launching Request Metrics for the third time, and I’m reflecting on what we did wrong in the first two attempts, and how we’re going to be better, faster, and strong next time.

Real user performance monitoring, the easy way

Request Metrics Launch Week Day 1 - Real User Performance Monitoring. Real User Performance Monitoring from Request Metrics is a game-changer. It’s never been this easy to automatically get your performance reports, and with our data and alerts, you’ll know exactly when you need to act to protect your experience, boost your SEO, and increase the revenue of your site.

Frontend vs Backend Performance: Which is Slower?

Kent C Dodds made a claim on Twitter (X) that the “biggest performance problems are probably backend, not frontend related.” Is this true? Some websites have slow backends, for sure. Others have slow frontends. A few unfortunate sites are slow in both. But as of today, right now in 2023, which is the bigger performance problem for most teams, the frontend or the backend? I wanted to explore it with some real data from the web.

Improving Your Interaction to Next Paint (INP)

Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is a newer addition to the Core Web Vital metrics intended to measure how real users perceive the responsiveness of modern web applications. Web Vitals Measurements like INP are becoming increasingly important as web applications and SPA’s run more JavaScript on the client side.