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Pluralsight

Tracking Real World Web Performance

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Overview

How fast is your site? Learn about RUM (Real User Monitoring), Synthetic Testing, Performance Budgets and more to find out!

Study upon study confirms that web performance has a direct correlation to revenue, operating costs, and search engine ranking. With this in mind, we all want our applications to be faster, but how do we know what bottlenecks to focus on? This course will cover how to leverage various browser APIs to capture your application's live performance data, understand what the metrics mean, and focus on the ones you should really care about. Along the way you'll learn how to monitor real users, understand when to use synthetic testing tools, and automate performance tracking.

Syllabus

  • Why Does Performance Matter? 7mins
  • Thinking About Performance 5mins
  • Understanding Individual Metrics 13mins
  • Handling Collections of Metrics 15mins
  • Gathering Metrics 28mins
  • Automating Metrics Gathering 14mins
  • What Should We Be Shooting For? 13mins

Taught by

Nik Molnar

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