User Guides
Here is an overview of what Request Metrics can help with, and how it improves your website performance. Read our user guides to learn more about Request Metrics' features.
What is Request Metrics?
Request Metrics is a Real-User Monitoring tool that helps website owners understand the user experience and web performance of their website. It gathers metrics from the real visitors using your website and provides insights and recommendations on how to make your website faster.
What can Request Metrics do for you?
As an integrated Real User Monitoring platform, Request Metrics provides several important features to help keep your website fast.
Real User Monitoring
Request Metrics provides Real User Monitoring (RUM) to give you insight into how real visitors experience your website. Unlike synthetic tests, RUM captures actual user interactions and performance across different devices, browsers, and network conditions. You can monitor load times, user interactions, and errors in real-time, ensuring you’re always aware of potential issues before they affect more users. By using RUM, you get the full picture of your site’s performance and how it impacts your audience.
RUM helps you identify performance bottlenecks, detect errors, and optimize user experience. With detailed metrics from real users, you can make data-driven decisions to improve your site, keeping your users happy and engaged while boosting conversions and SEO rankings.
Core Web Vitals
Google’s Core Web Vitals are essential for understanding your site’s performance in areas that directly impact user experience. Request Metrics tracks all three key metrics:
In addition to other vitals like First Contentful Paint (FCP) and Time to First Byte (TTFB), so you know exactly how your site performs according to Google’s standards. Keeping these metrics in check is crucial for maintaining good SEO and providing a smooth, frustration-free experience for your visitors.
With Request Metrics, you can monitor Core Web Vitals in real time and compare them against industry standards or your competitors. Our detailed reporting shows exactly where to focus your efforts for the biggest impact on site speed, stability, and interactivity.
Learn how Request Metrics can help you investigate LCP problems or track down elements causing CLS.
Web Resources
Request Metrics dives deep into your site’s web resources: the JavaScript, images, fonts, and stylesheets that your website depends on. We monitor the load times, sizes, caching, and delay of each asset, so you can identify slow-loading or unnecessarily large resources. Optimizing your web resources not only speeds up your site but also helps improve Core Web Vitals, leading to better user experiences and higher search rankings.
Our tool allows you to drill down into specific resources and see their impact on the user experience. Whether it’s finding slow third-party scripts or bloated images, you’ll have the insights you need to reduce bloat and improve performance.
Chrome User Experience Report
The Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) is a treasure trove of real-world performance data, and Request Metrics taps directly into it. CrUX provides aggregated data on how actual users experience websites across the internet. We automatically pull CrUX data for your site’s origins, giving you a powerful benchmark for comparison against competitors or industry standards.
By integrating CrUX into our platform, you can see how your site performs in the real world—based on actual user interactions from millions of Chrome users. This gives you a historical perspective on performance trends and helps you make informed decisions to optimize your site over time.
Error Monitoring
Request Metrics provides powerful error monitoring, so you can catch and fix issues before they impact your users. Our tool automatically tracks JavaScript errors, failed network requests, and other critical problems that can break your site or disrupt user experience. With detailed error reports, including stack traces and affected user sessions, you can pinpoint exactly where and why things went wrong.
By integrating error monit oring with real user data, you get the full context of when, where, and how errors occur, allowing you to prioritize fixes based on impact. Keep your site running smoothly by proactively addressing issues before they cause frustration or lost conversions.