RUM error monitoring, LCP optimization, better lab data exports, and more.

Here's what's new in DebugBear for October 2024.

Enhanced RUM custom metrics, a new lazy loading experiment, multiple experiment runs, and more Here's what's new in DebugBear for September 2024.

August brings many improvements to Real User Monitoring, UI updates, and lots more new educational resources. Let's dive into what's new in DebugBear this month.

This month we've upgraded to the latest Lighthouse, Chrome, and Web Vitals JavaScript library. We've also introduced CrUX Round Trip Time data and have published several new articles and videos to help you optimize your website performance.

Better privacy with the RUM proxy, a new way of creating Page Groups, and improvements to the Engagement tab. Here's what's new in DebugBear for June 2024.

A new Optimize tab, better detection of parser blocking resources, the RUM Metrics API, and more educational content. Here's what's new in DebugBear for May 2024.

We've improved our debug data for INP, surfaced request priority changes more clearly, added reporting for CrUX navigation types, and added two new test locations.

Better INP debug data, site-wide lab data averages, and real user Core Web Vitals alerts.

Better dashboards to analyze LCP and INP, recommended experiments, and an easier monitoring setup with a website scan.

We've improved our real user monitoring dashboards, improved the request waterfalls in our lab tests, and published loads of new content.

We've expanded our RUM data to include LCP sub-parts and long animation frames. Plus we've published 5 new articles about web performance.

RUM request watefall, RUM network details, and better lab test recommendations.

Compare metrics across date ranges, re-run experiments, and save frequently used page and RUM filters.

We've launched a free INP debugger, added a RUM Core Web Vitals map, and added website favicons to make it easier to find your projects.

Get more data to debug slow real user experience, correlate page speed with bounce rate, configure RUM page groups and domains, and compare test results more easily.

Better page speed experiments, real-user percentile trends and LCP element preview, and upgrades to Chrome and Lighthouse.

Improved performance budgets, better webhooks, and new articles.

CrUX history data, new compare UI, more detailed data exports, better debug data for priority changes and preload headers.

We've updated the dashboard design, added support for reordering pages, added a metric trends tooltip, and now support read-only API keys.

Use the metric groups feature to customize your site speed dashboards. We've also upgraded Lighthouse and improved our performance recommendations.

You can now export test results as MP4, edit advanced settings like cookies more easily, and get a breakdown of the Lighthouse Performance score.

More performance metrics in the overview tab, a new test location in Israel, plus a Google Chrome update.

We've launched a free tool, improved performance recommendations, and published 3 new articles.

Better request initiator data, new test locations, and a chrome extension that surfaces observed metrics on PageSpeed Insights.

New trends view, more details in the request waterfall, new page filter options, and 3 new blog posts.

Debug each performance metric, view a video recording of the page load process, better Lighthouse audit comparisons, and more on SSL certificates.

Tracking Google's New Interaction to Next Paint metric, an updated request waterfall, and monthly trends data.

Run site speed experiments and check browser resource hints are working correctly.

Timeline annotations, webhooks, body hiding detection, and various UI improvements.

Better weekly emails, identify the cause of LCP more easily, and an upgrade to Lighthouse 9.1

Core Web Vitals trendlines and a Microsoft Teams integration

Better web vitals data and easier request waterfall analysis.

New test scheduling options, Lighthouse 8.0, and weekly email reports.

Improved data to debug layout shifts and other web performance problems.

Test the performance of warm loads, view request headers and response bodies, and collapse the sidebar to focus on metric data.

DebugBear now has better support for the User Timing API, new server locations, and various UI improvements.

DebugBear now makes it easier to show historical metrics data for all monitored pages.

November brought a bunch of UX improvements, including the ability to set up monitoring for multiple test locations and devices at once.

DebugBear now supports tagging pages, blocking ads, and comparing aggregate metrics between pages.

You can now set up custom test devices and configure network and CPU throttling.

Performance test results now include a timeline showing a rendering filmstrip and CPU tasks. You now also disable scheduled tests for monitored pages.

Run performance tests multiple times to reduce variability.

You can now see more details about each network request, and all columns are sortable.

The Console output view has been redesigned and now includes code snippets where possible.

Lighthouse has been upgraded to version 6, introducing new performance metrics.

You can now customize the default alert critera used by DebugBear.

DebugBear now validates the page HTML, in addition to testing site speed and Lighthouse scores.

You can now run user flows before testing a page, for example to add an item to an ecommerce basket or go through a booking flow.

The DebugBear API has been extended and the node module now exports TypeScript types.

The DebugBear request chart now shows requests made to check for certificate revocation.