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CEO & Co-founder of @Raygunio. I tweet about business, technology and investing. 🧐 Fear not though! I'm a dorky optimist too, so not all serious 😘
Aug 15, 2018 19 tweets 6 min read
Let's have a quick (long?) chat about web performance.

I have the unique situation of seeing data from billions of performance profiles as we help customers with @raygunio's Real User Monitoring look to improve user experience. #webdev #PerformanceMatters #webperf 1. Many folks still think a synthetic test is a Good Thing. That is, pinging a website from a fixed set of servers. It's better than naught, but it's a pretty poor proxy for real customer experience.

You're measuring data center to data center performance (even if nerfing perf)