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How to Create Playwright Scripts for Website Monitoring with Chrome, ChatGPT & Sematext

Let’s say you want to make sure your website works as expected. You do not want to check if it just loads. You also want to check if important buttons

Frontend Performance Monitoring: 8 Tools & SaaS to Improve Application and Website User Experience [2023]

Monitoring the performance of an application is not a strange concept to most developers. At one point or another, we've all had to do some performance debugging of our own.

11 Best Website Uptime Monitoring Tools in 2025

Uptime monitoring is like having home insurance—you hope you never need it, but you'll be devastated without it when disaster strikes.  Uptime monitoring tools are specialized software solutions that continuously

Top 13 Website Speed Testing Tools in 2025

There are a lot of reasons why people choose to shop at one online store over another or pick one streaming service over another from the type of service they

14 Best Website Monitoring Tools & Services. 2025 Comparison

Keeping your website running smoothly is no small task, and choosing the right monitoring tool can make all the difference. With so many options out there, it’s easy to feel

Web Browser Update Problems: How to Monitor Website Performance Anomalies Caused by New Browser Versions

When new web browser versions are released, new bugs are inevitably introduced, which can degrade a website’s performance and increase the overall page load time. This can severely impact a

What Is Network Latency: Common Causes and How to Fix Them for Good Performance

So you finally launched your service worldwide, great! The next thing you’ll see is thousands and thousands of people flooding into your amazing website from all corners of the world

14 Website Speed Optimization Tips: Techniques to Improve Performance and User Experience

In today's digital world, everything comes down to speed. It doesn't matter if you have the most complex and good-looking site if it takes forever to load. There are various

How to Test Website Speed: A Step by Step Tutorial on Measuring Page Load Times the Right Way

It shouldn't come as a surprise that website speed is important to your viewers. It's the first thing they experience after accessing your website. Your website speed is like an

How to Find Memory Leaks in Websites and Web Applications

Knowing how your users interact with your web application and how they experience it is crucial to provide the best possible experience. So what do you need to know? Start

Getting Started with Sematext Browser SDK for Front-end Performance Monitoring

Open-sourcing a code base for the world to see after working on it for a long time is a great experience. You should care about what your users want. You

What Are SSL Certificate Errors: Causes & Best Practices on How to Prevent and Fix Them

What do you think of a website that displays SSL/TLS certificate errors when you visit it? Most people abandon it in disappointment. A certain amount of trust and respect for

Website Benchmarking: An Example on How to Benchmark Performance Against Competitors

Time to first byte, first contentful paint, DNS response time, round-trip time, and the list goes on and on. With all of these website metrics, how are you supposed to

Introducing Sematext Synthetics for API & Website Monitoring

No matter which path of the stack you work on, it's crucial you make sure your website or API is up and running. We wanted to create a tool that

Top 10 Most Important Website Performance Metrics & KPIs Developers Should Measure

There are 1.3 billion websites out there in the great unknown and it’s hard not to think about what makes them different from one another. Why do users flock to