Overview
We have spent the better part of the web’s existence innovating and making sure we understood all aspects of its operation. With time, web apps became more capable – and as a result, also became more complicated with every deployment. Understanding what happens during a page load became important in debugging web applications and their performance.
Today, to perform such tasks, we have various devtools and apps like Lighthouse… however they tell only one side of the story. Real User Monitoring, or RUM for short, is now essential to document the part of the experience that we have access to via browser APIs — how the app actually performs with real users. This talk is about how we use RUM data to manage performance and more importantly the user experience on he web.
Objective
To demonstrate how RUM data is essential, and can be used to instruct developers on how an app performs.
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
- What Real User Monitoring (RUM) is
- How to interpret the data
- How RUM differs from LAB data (such as Lighthouse)
- Pros and cons of RUM
- RUM and LAB tools that are available to developers
Target Audience
Anyone developer looking to have deeper insights into web performance and user experience
