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Using Synthetic
Get your synthetic testing up and running
28 articles in this collection
Written by
Mark Zeman,
Tammy Everts,
and
Joseph Wynn
Test Settings (Basic)
Test agent locations/regions
The locations/regions you can choose to test your website from
Written by
Mark Zeman
Updated over a week ago
What browsers and devices can I test with?
List of desktop browsers and emulated phones and tablets – as well as default connection bandwidths – available in your Synthetic settings
Written by
Mark Zeman
Updated over a week ago
CPU throttling for mobile devices
Default settings for CPU throttle on emulated mobile devices, plus how to set your own custom CPU throttle
Written by
Mark Zeman
Updated over a week ago
Setting up your synthetic test times
How to customize different test times for each URL you're monitoring
Written by
Tammy Everts
Updated over a week ago
Track your first & third parties
How to monitor individual first & third party request groups over time – and set performance budgets and alerts for them.
Written by
Mark Zeman
Updated over a week ago
Edit the time zone for your account
How to change the time zone for your account or for individual teams
Written by
Tammy Everts
Updated over a week ago
Test Settings (Advanced)
Testing pages that require authentication
How to use SpeedCurve to test pages that require authentication via a login page, HTTP headers, or basic authentication.
Written by
Joseph Wynn
Updated over a week ago
Testing private QA, development and staging websites
How to prevent SpeedCurve and Lighthouse tests from being blocked by your firewall or bot manager.
Written by
Mark Zeman
Updated over a week ago
How to test pages that are part of user flows
Testing the performance of pages that involve user actions like a checkout flow
Written by
Joseph Wynn
Updated over a week ago
Bulk site settings import
Written by
Mark Zeman
Updated over a week ago
WebPageTest
Adding WebPageTest scripts to URLs
How to write scripted tests, plus some caveats you should be aware of.
Written by
Mark Zeman
Updated over a week ago
Add a repeat view using a WPT script
Written by
Mark Zeman
Updated over a week ago
Debugging WebPageTest scripts
Some tips for debugging your WebPageTest scripts.
Written by
Tammy Everts
Updated over a week ago
Running your own private agents
Written by
Mark Zeman
Updated over a week ago
Performance Budgets, Alerts & Reports
Webhook alerts
How to send SpeedCurve performance budget alerts to any webhook
Written by
Joseph Wynn
Updated over a week ago
Microsoft Teams alerts
Get Microsoft Teams alerts when your performance budgets are crossed
Written by
Joseph Wynn
Updated over a week ago
HipChat Alerts
Send performance budget alerts to HipChat.
Written by
Mark Zeman
Updated over a week ago
Slack alerts
Get Slack alerts when your performance budgets are crossed
Written by
Mark Zeman
Updated over a week ago
Analyzing Your Data
See your detailed historic synthetic test results
How to drill down from your dashboards to individual test results. This is where you'll find waterfall charts and optimization suggestions.
Written by
Tammy Everts
Updated over a week ago
Bookmark and compare Synthetic tests
Generate side-by-side comparisons that let you not only spot regressions, but easily identify what caused them.
Written by
Tammy Everts
Updated over a week ago
Lighthouse
Troubleshooting Lighthouse
Issues with your Lighthouse tests or results? Here are the answers to some common questions.
Written by
Tammy Everts
Updated over a week ago
Editing and Deleting Test Settings and Data
How do I pause testing for a site?
How to disable testing and still keep your historical data.
Written by
Mark Zeman
Updated over a week ago
Keeping your historical data when changing URLs
Written by
Mark Zeman
Updated over a week ago
Move synthetic test URLs and sites
How to move test URLs (and their data) to other sites in your settings. How to move entire sites (and their data) to other teams.
Written by
Tammy Everts
Updated over a week ago
Delete a site
How to remove a site and its test history from your Synthetic account
Written by
Tammy Everts
Updated over a week ago
Can I retrieve deleted test data?
Unfortunately, we can't restore deleted data and test settings. Here's how to pause or change your testing without losing historical data.
Written by
Tammy Everts
Updated over a week ago
Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting synthetic test results
Figure out why synthetic tests have failed or produced unexpected results
Written by
Joseph Wynn
Updated over a week ago
Why is my deploy stuck?
What causes tests to take a long time when they are started using the "test now" button or the deploy API?
Written by
Joseph Wynn
Updated over a week ago