We want to share an important update regarding Sematext Synthetics. As you know, our Browser Monitors help you track User Journeys across multiple pages on your website, using User Journey scripts to simulate real user actions. Until now, we’ve been relying on Puppeteer for this.
Now, we provide the option to use Playwright! This change brings several benefits. Here are two highlights:
- Playwright runs faster and more efficiently, giving you quicker response times and more accurate metrics.
- Playwright is more reliable than Puppeteer, thus resulting in more stable tests and less false positives.
- With a more user-friendly API, Playwright is easier to write and maintain, with some of our example scripts seeing a 30-50% decrease in the number of lines of code needed to achieve the same goal.
Please note that while Puppeteer will be supported until the end of this year, we are officially deprecating it. We require all our existing customers to convert their Puppeteer scripts to Playwright by the end of the year.
We’re here for you if you need help with the transition or have any questions!
For more information and Playwright script examples, refer to User Journey scripts.