Real usermonitoring

Measuring page performance from the browsers of actual visitors as they use a site.

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Definition

What it means

Real user monitoring, or RUM, runs a small script that records timings and errors from each visit. It shows how speed varies by country, device and page.

It catches regressions after a release that lab tests miss.

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What is Real user monitoring?

Measuring page performance from the browsers of actual visitors as they use a site.

Where does it sit in Growth Score?

It belongs to the Activation pillar, one of the 12 pillars your score is built from.

What should I read next?

Start with Field data and Core Web Vitals, then browse the other terms in Activation.

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