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Integrated Web Performance Monitoring

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Request Metrics @requestmetrics.com · Jan 9
Hey there Bluesky #intro!

We're Request Metrics Integrated Web Performance.

AKA The Rocket Sloth 🚀🦥

We're a small & talented team building the best platform to make your website fast with combined RUM, Lab Testing, SEO tools, and Core Web Vitals.

Check it out and let us help.
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Integrated Web Performance Monitoring
Real User Monitoring with Automatic Lab Testing to track your web performance, boost your SEO, and drive more revenue with a faster website.
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Third-party scripts work fine in tests but cause real user pain:

Analytics blocking rendering
Chat widgets slowing interactions
Payment lag

RUM catches this.

https://requestmetrics.com/web-performance/you-need-rum-to-understand-web-perf/
#WebPerf #ThirdParty
Why You Need Real User Monitoring to Really Understand Your Web Performance
Synthetic testing shows perfect scores, but users complain your site is slow. Real User Monitoring reveals the gap between lab performance and real-world exp...
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July 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Complete performance strategy:

🧪 Synthetic testing in development
👥 RUM in production
🔍 Investigate with synthetic
✅ Validate with RUM

https://requestmetrics.com/web-performance/you-need-rum-to-understand-web-perf/
#WebPerf #WebDev
Why You Need Real User Monitoring to Really Understand Your Web Performance
Synthetic testing shows perfect scores, but users complain your site is slow. Real User Monitoring reveals the gap between lab performance and real-world exp...
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July 1, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Gmail scores terribly on Lighthouse despite being one of the snappiest web apps ever built.

Context matters for performance measurement.

https://requestmetrics.com/web-performance/you-need-rum-to-understand-web-perf/
#WebDev #Performance
Why You Need Real User Monitoring to Really Understand Your Web Performance
Synthetic testing shows perfect scores, but users complain your site is slow. Real User Monitoring reveals the gap between lab performance and real-world exp...
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June 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Synthetic testing: "Your site loads in 1.2 seconds! 🎉"

Real users: "This page is taking forever..." 😤

RUM bridges this gap.

https://requestmetrics.com/web-performance/you-need-rum-to-understand-web-perf/
#WebPerf #UserExperience
Why You Need Real User Monitoring to Really Understand Your Web Performance
Synthetic testing shows perfect scores, but users complain your site is slow. Real User Monitoring reveals the gap between lab performance and real-world exp...
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June 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Performance issues only RUM can catch:
🔍 Device-specific problems
🌍 Geographic gaps
💰 Traffic spike disasters
📱 Progressive degradation

https://requestmetrics.com/web-performance/you-need-rum-to-understand-web-perf/
#WebPerf #RealUserMonitoring
Why You Need Real User Monitoring to Really Understand Your Web Performance
Synthetic testing shows perfect scores, but users complain your site is slow. Real User Monitoring reveals the gap between lab performance and real-world exp...
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June 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Lighthouse simulates an "85th percentile user" but their simulation is usually wrong for your audience.

RUM shows you YOUR users' reality.

https://requestmetrics.com/web-performance/you-need-rum-to-understand-web-perf/
#WebDev #Performance
Why You Need Real User Monitoring to Really Understand Your Web Performance
Synthetic testing shows perfect scores, but users complain your site is slow. Real User Monitoring reveals the gap between lab performance and real-world exp...
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June 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Chrome User Experience Report is like the lite beer of Real User Monitoring 🍺

Better than nothing, but lacks the substance you need for real decisions.

https://requestmetrics.com/web-performance/you-need-rum-to-understand-web-perf/
#WebPerf #CoreWebVitals
Why You Need Real User Monitoring to Really Understand Your Web Performance
Synthetic testing shows perfect scores, but users complain your site is slow. Real User Monitoring reveals the gap between lab performance and real-world exp...
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June 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Your CDN looks great in tests but European users get 3x slower load times.

Your checkout tests perfectly but mobile users abandon carts due to lag.

This is why you need RUM.

https://requestmetrics.com/web-performance/you-need-rum-to-understand-web-perf/
#WebPerf #UX
Why You Need Real User Monitoring to Really Understand Your Web Performance
Synthetic testing shows perfect scores, but users complain your site is slow. Real User Monitoring reveals the gap between lab performance and real-world exp...
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June 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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That moment when your Lighthouse score is 💯 but users are still complaining about slow pages...

Stop guessing, start measuring what they actually experience.

https://requestmetrics.com/web-performance/you-need-rum-to-understand-web-perf/
#WebDev #Performance
Why You Need Real User Monitoring to Really Understand Your Web Performance
Synthetic testing shows perfect scores, but users complain your site is slow. Real User Monitoring reveals the gap between lab performance and real-world exp...
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June 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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🚨 Plot twist: 50% of websites with perfect Lighthouse scores still fail Core Web Vitals for real users.

Your synthetic tests run in a perfect bubble. Your users live in the real world.

https://requestmetrics.com/web-performance/you-need-rum-to-understand-web-perf/
#WebPerf #RealUserMonitoring
Why You Need Real User Monitoring to Really Understand Your Web Performance
Synthetic testing shows perfect scores, but users complain your site is slow. Real User Monitoring reveals the gap between lab performance and real-world exp...
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June 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Jordan Griffin discusses lowering the barrier to getting user feedback during the redesign of ⁨TrackJS⁩ .

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Learn more about the TrackJS redesign 👇
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Lowering the barrier to user feedback #coding #programming #webdesign #debugging
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May 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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May 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Discover why Time to First Byte (TTFB) is crucial for website speed in this essential Concepts of Web Performance tutorial with @toddhgardner.com from Request Metrics.
What is Time to First Byte (TTFB) - The Concepts of Web Performance
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April 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Master the art of loading JavaScript efficiently in this essential Concepts of Web Performance tutorial with @toddhgardner.com from Request Metrics.

youtu.be/vS3-1RQecEE
Loading JavaScript on your Website - Concepts of Web Performance
YouTube video by Request Metrics
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April 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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@duffeh.bsky.social wrote about focusing on the experience of your real users instead of SEO for web performance. He quoted my work on Keyword Vitals that it might not matter for your keywords.

https://iankduffy.com/articles/web-performance---prioritising-user-experience-ahead-of-search-rankings/
Web Performance - Prioritising User Experience ahead of Search Rankings
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April 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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David Jacobs at Axos Bank uses Request Metrics to make their websites fast and usable.

"The engineering team behind this make Request Metrics an incredible value. I cannot recommend enough."
April 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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🔀 The powerful but dangerous Vary header:

Vary: Accept-Encoding

This creates separate cache entries for gzipped vs uncompressed content. But be careful - Vary on dynamic headers can destroy cache effectiveness 💣

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March 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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The Image Optimization Hack Nobody Talks About 🎩

💡 Optimize your thumbnails!
✅ Resize before serving (don’t rely on CSS)
✅ Convert to WebP/AVIF
✅ Serve from a CDN or separate subdomain

More image tricks: https://requestmetrics.com/web-performance/high-performance-images/

#WebDev #Optimization
How to Optimize Website Images: The Complete 2025 Guide
Images engage users, drive clicks, and generally make everything better--*except for performance*.Images are giant blobs of bytes that are usually the slowes...
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March 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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💥 Cache busting 101:

styles.d41d8cd98f.css vs styles.css?v=1.2

Both methods invalidate cache when content changes, but the first (filename hashing) is far superior! It enables longer cache times without refresh issues 🔒

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HTTP Caching Headers: The Complete Guide to Faster Websites
Learn how HTTP caching headers can dramatically improve your website performance. This guide covers everything from basic concepts to advanced implementation...
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March 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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🔄 "no-cache" ≠ "don't cache"!

This actually means "cache but validate before using" - not "don't cache at all" (that's no-store). This confusion causes so many performance issues! 🤦‍♂️

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March 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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@joshuaclareflagg.bsky.social uses Request Metrics for his #ecommerce stores to give him Quick and Easy insights into his #CoreWebVitals, and how to make his website faster!
March 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Your hero image is probably your LCP element. If it’s slow, your SEO suffers.

✅ Compress it (WebP/AVIF)
✅ Use fetchpriority="high"
✅ Serve via CDN

Fix LCP now: https://requestmetrics.com/web-performance/high-performance-images/

#SEO #LCP
How to Optimize Website Images: The Complete 2025 Guide
Images engage users, drive clicks, and generally make everything better--*except for performance*.Images are giant blobs of bytes that are usually the slowes...
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March 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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WebP vs. AVIF: Which One Wins? 🏆

WebP & AVIF crush file sizes, but which is better?
✅ WebP: Smaller than JPG/PNG, widely supported
✅ AVIF: Even smaller, but not universal
Best practice? Serve both with .

Full guide: https://requestmetrics.com/web-performance/high-performance-images/
How to Optimize Website Images: The Complete 2025 Guide
Images engage users, drive clicks, and generally make everything better--*except for performance*.Images are giant blobs of bytes that are usually the slowes...
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March 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Lab Scores only represent
🧑‍💻a single load
🌎 from a single location
⏰ and a single point in time.

Generally, the score doesn't matter-- user experience matters. And you measure that with RUM and CrUX.

So why should you trust the numbers from Request Metrics? Because we SHOW OUR WORK!
March 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Stop Hosting Images on Your Server 📦

Serving images from your main server? That’s a performance disaster. CDNs cache images worldwide for faster delivery & lower bandwidth.

Move your images to a CDN like Bunny.

More tips: https://requestmetrics.com/web-performance/high-performance-images/
How to Optimize Website Images: The Complete 2025 Guide
Images engage users, drive clicks, and generally make everything better--*except for performance*.Images are giant blobs of bytes that are usually the slowes...
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March 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM