How GOV.UK uses synthetic web performance monitoring
Matt Hobbs shares a straightforward, pragmatic walkthrough of how he set up the performance monitoring dashboards – including configuring test settings and creating performance budgets and alerts – for GOV.UK.....
GOV.UK enabled HTTP2 and were able to measure that this significantly improved performance. They found that, for users with slower devices and connections, start render improved by 2.5 seconds and page load time by 6 seconds.....
We made a simple code change but the impact on the wider GOV.UK codebase was significant. We changed the way the `@font-face` loading method referenced fonts...
We used @SpeedCurve to track Synthetic and RUM results over time. We convinced a client to turn Adobe Tag Manager off for two weeks. Load times went through the floor!
Flossington
The Crunchy Toast
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Tommy Parnell
CarGurus
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Barry Pollard
Author of HTTP/2 in Action
A site redesign really shows @SpeedCurve’s worth. So much good stuff in there that I haven’t had time to play with until now.
Jed Wood
Ancestry
It’s been a pleasure using SpeedCurve for the past couple of years. We made fantastic progress on many of our key pages, and I couldn't have done it without SpeedCurve.
Patrick Hamann
The Guardian
We used SpeedCurve to track the performance of the new Guardian responsive site which now loads four times faster and is one of the fastest news sites in the US.
Nick Howe
Hitachi Data Systems
SpeedCurve took 5 minutes to set up and gives me an instant view of how our site is performing in absolute terms, and relative to our competition.
Mike Geyser
Equal Experts
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Andre Scholten
Web Performance Specialist
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Vadim Supitskiy
Forbes
SpeedCurve has been an indispensable tool in our pursuit of a faster, more elegant UX.
Kyle Rush
VP of Engineering for @Casper. Formerly @HillaryClinton, @BarackObama, @Optimizely, @NewYorker
You all have a great tool on your hands. Can’t remember being this happy/excited about B2B software in years 😃
Tamara Forza
Lead frontend developer @ Schiphol
I'm glad we use @SpeedCurve at work to improve and monitor the performance of the #Schiphol website.
Dario Barrio
Trovit
Setting up @SpeedCurve, powerful enough to keep track of performance improvements and simple enough to show some cool graphs!
Josh Deltener
Director of Front-end @RealTruck
@SpeedCurve Real User Monitoring (RUM) helped us spot a giant performance hit when a popular A/B testing tool was enabled by Ops. Highly recommend.
Vitaly Friedman
Smashing Magazine
Thank you for your stellar work, friends! ❤️
Andreas Stephan
Senior Product Manager @ Talentformation
We just had a great call about some @SpeedCurve features with @tameverts and @Souders. I am really delighted to get such great customer service in additions to such an awesome tool! Thanks!
Tom Dooner
Causes
We've got SpeedCurve on the studio wall monitor and staying faster than our competitors is hugely motivating.
Kevin Suttle
IBM, Design Technologist
Great features that I would have had to ask for in any other platform.
Addy Osmani
Google Chrome
❤️ everything SpeedCurve have been doing lately: First Input Delay support, Long Tasks, CPU Scripting time, Perf Budget support, Last Painted Hero. Y'all are rocking the performance monitoring space big time.
Joao Pedro Ribeiro
VoucherCodes
We managed to shave ~1s by tweaking our HTTP/2 server push settings 🚀 All monitored via @SpeedCurve amazing dashboards.
Joan León
Frontend Engineer & Google Dev Expert
I'm trying @SpeedCurve and it's the best experience I've ever had with Web Performance data interpretation 🤩