⚙ A change in Total Blocking Time means there was a change in CPU activity, right? Not always! One aspect of the TBT definition that depends on network activity. Only long tasks between FCP and TTI can contribute to TBT. If the network is busy for longer, that can result in a TBT change!

🤔 Wondering how to get started with load testing? We've just published an in-depth guide that explains the basics and shows you how to get started with the free JMeter tool. www.debugbear.com/blog/load-te...

🚀 Where do you go to experience pure speed? A Formula 1 race? A rocket launch? Or... the self-checkout at Lidl! We've tested 8 different self-checkouts for performance and created a ranking. www.debugbear.com/blog/self-ch...

We've crunched the numbers to discover the fastest (and slowest) gaming sites on the web – and revealed the Core Web Vitals issues holding publishers back - full article below👇

We've made some design improvements to our INP breakdown data!

What's the most common cause of huge HTML documents that take a while to download? It's not HTML tags themselves, but scripts tags full of JSON! Often from hydration state added during the server-side rendering process. View an analysis of your HTML size here: www.debugbear.com/html-size-an...

How does Google use Core Web Vitals as a ranking factor? Our new video looks at: 🔎 What Google says about page speed and SEO 🚦 How to check web vitals for your website 🏡 Why the Lighthouse score does not directly impact rankings www.youtube.com/watch?v=81NJ...

Every second of page load delay can cost your website precious conversions. In our latest YouTube video, Scott reveals how web performance tweaks have unlocked millions of dollars in extra revenue for major ecommerce brands. Access the full video below 👇

Third-party code can slow down your website. Read our latest post to learn how to optimize it in Nuxt: 🙈 Adding scripts with useHead 🔧 Get more control with Nuxt Scripts 🎉 Combine Nuxt Scripts and Partytown www.debugbear.com/blog/nuxt-sc...

Why does webpage speed matter? 💰 Faster sites = more revenue! 👀 See our full video on YouTube for see real case studies – and learn how DebugBear to optimize your site. Link in reply 👇

📊 Yesterday, Google announced that they've deprecated the CrUX dashboard in Looker Studio. Check out our list of alternatives here: www.debugbear.com/software/cru...

Did you know that how the network is throttled when running a page speed test impacts metrics? 🛠️ DevTools throttling is a simple minimum request duration 🏡 Lighthouse only simulates a slow-down 🐻 DebugBear & WebPageTest introduce a packet-level delay Learn more: www.debugbear.com/blog/network...

We've rolled out an upgrade to Lighthouse 12.8.2! The new performance insights are now shown by default in the Lighthouse report. Read this article to learn more about how insights are replacing the traditional audits: www.debugbear.com/blog/perform...

Product updates for August: 🖼️ CPU / LoAF data for the Largest Contentful Paint 💰 New lab test budgets dashboards 📊 View the last page speed test result or view an average value www.debugbear.com/changelog/au...

When should you invest in performance? Our latest blog posts discusses the pros and cons of investing in performance engineering, and how different organizations get value for different reasons. www.debugbear.com/blog/perform...

New real user monitoring feature: you can now view what scripts run during the initial page load process. See if CPU processing is delaying your LCP and what code has the biggest impact. www.debugbear.com/docs/rum/lon...

Third-party code can cause a lot of CPU tasks on the browser main thread, slowing down the page load and delaying user interactions. Our new article explains how to Partytown and web workers to run third-party scripts in the background! www.debugbear.com/blog/partyto...

What are synthetic and real user monitoring, and when do you need each data type? Our new video explains how synthetic and real user performance data are collected, and what the advantages and disadvantages are. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfOy...

DebugBear is built to help teams collaborate, whether you work on one product, run an agency, or manage many different brands within your company. 👫 Set up different teams 🏡 Manage quote across projects 🚫 Archive and delete old projects www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Ad...

Test TTFB From Multiple Test Locations www.debugbear.com/test/ttfb by @debugbear.com

Long CPU tasks during the page load can slow down your website and cause slow interactions. We've just completely revamped our guide to the Total Blocking Time metric that Lighthouse uses as part of the Performance score! www.debugbear.com/docs/metrics...

🚀 Chasing website perfection? Focus on user experience, not just scores! 🎯 Our latest video reveals why great performance drives conversions and beats competitors. Just don’t chase the score - chase the optimization. youtu.be/KxBWsNbsVUo

How can digital agencies help clients identify and fix Core Web Vitals issues? We talked to Paul Terry from Paramount Digital about the role web performance plays for their clients, how they fixed a recent LCP issue, and why they chose DebugBear for monitoring. www.debugbear.com/case-study/p...

Another great post by @mattzeunert.com on grizzled perf investigator wisdom (that most developers don't believe): HTTP-level prioritization will impact the order requests are sent in, but after that it's a wild west. Most servers don't help you out!: debugbear.com/blog/http-priori…

🚀 Boost your website’s speed without breaking anything! Run experiments to try out optimizations. 📊 In our latest video short, we prioritized a key image, slashing Largest Contentful Paint from 2.74s to 1.21s and boosting our score to 87%! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxBW...

🧑‍💻 Want to test page speed for pages that require login or another form to be filled out first? Our user flow feature allows you to do that! Check out our new video to learn more and see some practical examples. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF2C...

🚀 Using DebugBear with a live Wordpress website, we optimized image sizes, added lazy loading, and tweaked caching settings to slash rendering times! 📉 We transformed performance in just a few steps. Check out the full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxBW...

Wondering how to fix your slow website? We've got a new post out on our blog today: ⁉️ Find out common causes of poor performance 📈 Learn how to fix your website step by step 🤑 Understand the business need for site speed www.debugbear.com/blog/fix-slo...

Performance budgets allow your team to keep on track of your site speed, and get alerted to new regressions. Our new budgets dashboards lets you see all checks you've configured at a glance! www.debugbear.com/docs/perform...

🚀 Is your website loading too slowly? DebugBear helps you optimize performance by baselining your site, identifying bottlenecks, and running experiments before making changes. Watch our full video for all the tuning tips. youtu.be/KxBWsNbsVUo

Want to debug websites in Safari on Mac or iOS? You need the Safari Web Inspector! 🐛 Debug CPU and memory 🚶 Step through JavaScript code 📚 View log output 📱 Inspect websites on your phone www.debugbear.com/blog/safari-...

Looking for a real-world example of how to fix your slow website? In our new video we walk you through all the steps: 📊 Establish a baseline 🕵️‍♂️ Identify issues 🧪 Try out optimizations 🚀 Speed up your live site www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxBW...

Want to speed up your Nuxt app? We've just published a new guide on how to optimize Nuxt data fetching with the useAsyncData composable. www.debugbear.com/blog/nuxt-us...

⚡Scott Moore, a 25+ year performance engineering veteran, talk about what it takes to balance frontend and backend optimization! Watch the full video to find out more about holistic web performance: youtu.be/p6gwO52BIsA?...

Sometimes servers don't send HTTP response data in the right order. Our new article explains why request priority matters for HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 connections, and how poor server-side support can impact page speed. www.debugbear.com/blog/http-pr...

Product updates for July: 📊 New real user performance overview 🚛 PDF export 🧍‍♂️ Better debug data for SPAs 📚 Guides to HTTP/3, JavaScript execution, and more www.debugbear.com/changelog/ju...

🥇 Wondering how your website performance compares to others in your industry? Learn how to use data from Google's Chrome User Experience report to create an industry benchmark. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQfu...

🌍 The evolution of web performance is fascinating! 🚀 Back in the early '90s, we shifted from mainframes to client-server systems, with databases and app servers at the core. Then came the web—browsers became the client! Curious about this journey? Watch the full video: youtu.be/p6gwO52BIsA?...

🤔 How do you measure web performance for single page applications? Our new article takes a look at different ways to collect SPA metrics and how you can use this data to optimize them! www.debugbear.com/blog/single-...

Want to see the values PageSpeed Insights measured on your website in addition to the simulated ones from the Lighthouse report? Our Chrome extension surfaces this data for you: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/site-...

We recently added support for exporting dashboards and page speed test results as a PDF! In addition to that you can: 📊 Export metrics as CSV and JSON 🎥 Download video recordings as MP4 💻 Export test results through our API www.debugbear.com/docs/data-ex...

🖥️ One big insight from Steve Souder’s book (High Performance Web Sites) sparked a revolution in web performance in the mid-2000’s! 🌐 80-90% of a website’s load happens on the frontend. Want to dive deeper into this history lesson? Watch the full video here: youtu.be/p6gwO52BIsA?...

Want to test cached page loads, staging websites, or hide a cookie banner? Our new video explains how to use DebugBear advanced settings to achieve this and more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjXo...

Want to improve page load time for your Nuxt app? Learn how to optimize Nuxt server side rendering in our new article! www.debugbear.com/blog/nuxt-ss...

New in our real user web vitals dashboards: 🌍 Get a high-level overview more easily 🐢 Identify slow pages www.debugbear.com/real-user-mo...

Over time, front-end performance in the browser has become more and more important. But websites still can't be fast without a high-performing backend! Our new article explains what that means for developers and organizations. www.debugbear.com/blog/perform...

🖼️ Did you know you can log images in the Chrome DevTools console? Check out our article below to find out how and discover more advanced console features. www.debugbear.com/blog/chrome-...

📊 Small update to our real user monitoring tool: the histogram now shows a line indicating the average metric value! Btw: you can select whether that average shows the mean, p50, p75, or p90. By default we show the 75th percentile, like Google's real user metrics.

🔻 When you notice a page speed regression, how do you know what caused the change? Our new video explains how to compare different test results to spot why your metrics have changed. Plus, learn how to show off a before and after video after fixing an issue! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCkx...

✨ We've done some work to clean up the test history view. Plus, if the page experiments tab now also shows any previous experiments you've run.