How to make sense of real user performance metrics
Level
Thanks to client-side APIs like Navigation Timing, Wikipedia can collect a lot of information about the real performance experienced by users. However, the organic nature of this data introduces many pitfalls when it comes to interpreting it.
Gilles Dubuc takes a look at best practices, real life examples from Wikipedia’s production traffic, and recent research on this subject. Gilles attempts to answer which of these metrics matter the most. And you’ll get a glimpse of exciting new real user monitoring (RUM) metrics being worked on at the W3C Web Performance working group and Wikipedia’s experience testing them with Google Origin Trials.
Prerequisite knowledge
- General knowledge of web performance and its related client-side APIs
What you'll learn
- Understand how to and how not to look at real user performance data to extract meaning from it
Gilles Dubuc
Wikimedia Foundation
Gilles Dubuc is a senior performance engineer and is a member of the performance team at the Wikimedia Foundation, where he focuses on bridging the gap between performance metrics and real user performance perception.
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