Get the most out of SpeedCurve

Troubleshooting FAQs for RUM and Synthetic

Run into problems with your synthetic tests or real user monitoring? Find answers to common issues here.

Written by Tammy Everts
Updated this week

Filtering SpeedCurve traffic from Google Analytics

Best practices for filtering traffic from SpeedCurve agents

Written by Cliff Crocker
Updated over a week ago

Trend metrics & compare time periods

How to visualize trends and compare discrete time periods within your historical Synthetic and LUX data.

Written by Tammy Everts
Updated over a week ago

How to see your SpeedCurve usage

How to see utilization of your budgeted synthetic checks and LUX page views

Written by Cliff Crocker
Updated over a week ago

User Audit Logs

How to look at recent SpeedCurve history and changes across your accounts

Written by Cliff Crocker
Updated over a week ago

How long does SpeedCurve keep my data?

How long your Synthetic and LUX data is retained, and how you can export your historical data for your own use.

Written by Tammy Everts
Updated over a week ago

Integrating SpeedCurve into a continuous integration environment

Use the SpeedCurve API to integrate with any CI tool like Jenkins, Travis, or CircleCI

Written by Joseph Wynn
Updated over a week ago

Add and edit users, admins, and teams

How to add teams and users to your account. Users can be invited to join a team, and you control their view or edit permissions.

Written by Tammy Everts
Updated over a week ago

Create custom metrics

Both SpeedCurve Synthetic and LUX support custom timers via the User Timing spec. Here's how to get started, including six sample metrics.

Written by Steve Souders
Updated over a week ago

View Lighthouse results across your whole site

The Improve dashboard is your own performance checklist, based on Lighthouse and PageSpeed audits aggregated across all of your URLs

Written by Joseph Wynn
Updated over a week ago

Performance culture tips and best practices

How to create a healthy, happy web performance culture in your organization

Written by Tammy Everts
Updated over a week ago

Create custom dashboards and charts

With your Favorite dashboards, it's easy (yes, easy) for you to focus on the metrics that matter most to you and share them with your team.

Written by Tammy Everts
Updated over a week ago

When do performance budget alerts get sent?

We send alerts via email and to webhook endpoints like Slack and HipChat.

Written by Mark Zeman
Updated over a week ago

New Favorites Editor

You might notice some changes to the chart editor in your Favorites dashboards. Here's a quick overview of what's changed.

Written by Joseph Wynn
Updated over a week ago

Create performance budgets and set alerts

How to create and edit performance budgets for your LUX and Synthetic metrics in your Favorites dashboards

Written by Joseph Wynn
Updated over a week ago

Monitor your performance budgets

Your Status dashboard lets you monitor and manage all your Synthetic and LUX performance budgets – and see budget violations – in one place

Written by Tammy Everts
Updated over a week ago

Interpreting performance budget alerts

Written by Joseph Wynn
Updated over a week ago

Share your SpeedCurve dashboards

How to share your SpeedCurve dashboards with other people or display them on a TV screen without having to log in.

Written by Joseph Wynn
Updated over a week ago

Generate weekly email reports

Turn any Favorites dashboard into an email report that contains a week-over-week comparison of your data

Written by Joseph Wynn
Updated over a week ago

Benchmark yourself against your competitors

Knowing which of your competitors are faster than you is a great way to get performance buy-in throughout your organization.

Written by Mark Zeman
Updated over a week ago

Use custom labels to compare URLs or page groups

This is important for competitive benchmarking, A/B testing your own pages, and comparing your synthetic and RUM data.

Written by Tammy Everts
Updated over a week ago

Monitoring JavaScript Performance

Learn how to use SpeedCurve to comprehensively monitor your JavaScript performance

Written by Joseph Wynn
Updated over a week ago

Get comparison videos

With SpeedCurve synthetic monitoring, you can generate comparison videos to use for your internal or competitive benchmarking.

Written by Tammy Everts
Updated over a week ago

Add notes and deploys

Keep track of changes to your site and deploys. Here's how to add and edit notes in your charts – either manually or with our Deploy API.

Written by Mark Zeman
Updated over a week ago

Export your Synthetic test data

Your SpeedCurve test data is available via our Synthetic API as well as via an open-source tool called speedcurve2csv.

Written by Tammy Everts
Updated over a week ago

A/B performance testing

How to benchmark URL variations against each other

Written by Mark Zeman
Updated over a week ago

How to sign in with SSO

How to use SSO with SpeedCurve including SAML, LDAP, ADFS, and more. Note that SSO is available for *annual* plans only.

Written by Joseph Wynn
Updated over a week ago

Filtering Favorites Dashboards

Understanding how filtering works for favorites dashboards

Written by Cliff Crocker
Updated over a week ago