{"id":298906,"date":"2019-11-19T08:23:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T15:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/?p=298906"},"modified":"2019-11-19T08:23:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T15:23:44","slug":"six-months-using-firebase-web-performance-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/six-months-using-firebase-web-performance-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Months Using Firebase Web Performance Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t really think of <a href=\"https:\/\/firebase.google.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Firebase<\/a> as a performance monitoring tool (all I ever think about is auth and real-time data storage), but nevertheless, it totally has <a href=\"https:\/\/firebase.google.com\/products\/performance\/\" rel=\"noopener\">that feature<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/justinribeiro.com\/chronicle\/2019\/10\/28\/six-months-using-firebase-web-performance-monitoring\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Justin Ribeiro<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[A] tool to track what real users in the wild are experiencing with an easy setup? Yes, please. [&#8230;] I\u2019ve been using Firebase web perf tracking since June on this very blog. Let\u2019s take a look at the good, the bad, and the downright confusing portions of the Firebase web performance monitoring.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Justin talks about the good and bad of this particular product, but what I think is notable about this kind of performance tooling is that it is reflective of <em>real users<\/em> using your production site. A lot of performance tooling tests is just fancied up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webpagetest.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">WebPageTest<\/a> that runs your site once on probably-simulated browser conditions. I don&#8217;t see as much happening in the real user performance monitoring space. <\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;d rank performance testing by type like this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Run simulated performance metrics in <abbr title=\"Continuous Integration\">CI<\/abbr>. Stop merge requests that break metrics\/budgets.<\/li>\n<li>Measure real user monitoring in production.<\/li>\n<li>Run simulated performance metrics in production.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t really think of Firebase as a performance monitoring tool (all I ever think about is auth and real-time data storage), but nevertheless, it totally has that feature. Justin Ribeiro&#8230; [A] tool to track what real users in the wild are experiencing with an easy setup? Yes, please. [&#8230;] I\u2019ve been using Firebase web [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":298933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"c2c_always_allow_admin_comments":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/css-tricks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/firebase-pattern.png?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298906"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298928,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298906\/revisions\/298928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}