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SpeedCurve is now part of the Embrace family! There are no changes to how you use our products. Our founder Mark shares what this means...

NEW! A better way to quantify user happiness on your site

The goal of making websites faster is to make users happier. Since user happiness can't be measured directly, we launched the User Happiness metric more than six years ago. We've just released a fresh User Happiness update to reflect changes in web browsers and the overall web performance space!

User Happiness plotted as a time series

Back in October 2019, we released our User Happiness metric with the goal of quantifying how a user might have felt while loading a page.

User Happiness is an aggregated metric that combines important user experience signals, gathered with real user monitoring (RUM). To create the User Happiness algorithm, we picked metrics and thresholds that we felt reflected the overall user experience: pages that loaded slowly or lagged during interaction were more likely to make someone feel unhappy, whereas fast and snappy pages would keep users happy.

More than six years later, we've updated User Happiness to reflect changes in web browsers and the overall web performance space. Keep reading to learn more.

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