SolarWinds® Web Performance Monitor (WPM) lets you constantly monitor web-based application and website responsiveness from the view of your end users.
WPM is designed to help you:
The easy-to-use recorder built into SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor is designed to capture every step in a web transaction and save it to a test you can run continuously. No need to use lengthy training or expensive professional services. WPM translates the sequence of web browser actions into a script for you and simulates the steps end users take when using your website or web-based applications. WPM records typical actions like mouse clicks, text input, file downloads, and matching text strings.
The transaction player in SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor can run from its own server or from remote locations. Just deploy your recorder at the location from which you want to understand the user experience. This feature can give insight into broader performance issues and is particularly useful for troubleshooting website or web application performance problems for remote locations or customers.
SolarWinds WPM’s multi-tenant UI is designed to offer greater visibility and control over testing website and web applications, including from an end user perspective. You can set account limitations to restrict user access rights to designated network areas or withhold certain types of information from designated users, such as limiting views of specific transactions, player locations, or groups. This feature is important for managed service providers and large multi-department, multi-location businesses wanting to leverage a single instance of WPM.
Between the intuitive dashboard and web-based reports in SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor, this tool makes it easier to understand load times of webpages and elements. The TCP waterfall charts are designed to help you quickly identify what page elements are taking the most time to load. With WPM, you can monitor website elements such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, as well as overall performance, and receive automatic notifications for incomplete or slow transactions.
User experience monitoring, also called end-user experience monitoring, is a process that lets you monitor the impact of device and application performance from the point of view of an end user. It’s designed to help locate problems with web content and applications, so you can find and fix performance issues before they impact the end-user experience.
User experience monitoring falls under the broader umbrella of web performance monitoring and, as a result, is often covered by the same software solution as web performance monitoring.
Web performance monitoring involves testing and measuring how a web application, website, or other web-based service responds when end users interact with it by collecting data tied to network hop issues, internet latency, and other metrics to help build a snapshot of server or website performance. You can use this performance data to optimize website speed, reduce bounce rates, and improve end-user experience by monitoring transactions addressing the performance of specific sequences to more easily troubleshoot front-end web application issues.
Using a transaction recorder, you can monitor critical site transactions to make sure you’re the first to know of a performance failure that could be affecting your users’ experience. These insights can help you troubleshoot and prioritize your efforts to provide a seamless end-user experience.
If your users don’t have a good experience on your website or web application, they’ll likely leave it. End users have short attention spans and expect a fast-loading site and a seamless digital experience. If you’re not monitoring performance and availability, you could be losing customers and revenue.
Poorly performing webpages and apps can seriously cost you. That’s why effective end-user performance monitoring is important. Some other benefits of monitoring user experience are:
User experience testing is one of the most important steps you can take to optimize your website and web applications. It can let you create different transaction tests to simulate user behavior. Record potential steps taken by end users, such as mouse clicks, text input, file downloads, and matching text strings, so you can monitor performance and get alerted immediately when there’s an issue.
To create a web transaction test to monitor the end user experience, consider the following steps:
Step 1: Figure out your monitoring goals.
Before you start user experience testing, you should outline the goal of your monitoring. Are you monitoring SaaS-based programs to ensure the responsiveness and availability fall within SLAs? Are you measuring the potential impact of specific website and web app changes? Do you want to know if core transactions like shopping and payment processes are performing as users expect? Are you trying to detect if there are any web app bottlenecks occurring in a specific location?
Step 2: Create your task scenarios.
Create task scenarios reflecting real site flows users might try to perform on your site or web app. You want to simulate how real users would achieve their objectives, like checking out, logging in, or using the search field.
Step 3: Use a transaction recorder.
Using a transaction recorder can help you better understand potential performance problems by simulating steps in a web transaction, so you can more easily identify where potential user experience issues may occur.
User monitoring tools can even run transaction tests from remote locations, which means you can troubleshoot performance issues for remote locations and customers no matter where they are.
Step 4: Analyze your results.
The final step is to analyze the results of your testing, adjust accordingly, and then repeat the process to find even more places for improvement. If you have a tool with an integrated application stack management dashboard, this step can be easier. You’ll be able to view detailed load-time metrics, pinpoint slow page elements, and monitor HTML, JavaScript, and HTML elements. You could also run reports on the metrics you need, including web availability, page load speed, or transaction health.
SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM) is built to include tools you need to help perform thorough end user performance monitoring.
With WPM, you can:
Web Performance Monitor comes with an array of tools to help you track user experience and test transactions from any location. Since WPM is installed behind your firewall, the tool makes it easy to monitor internal web applications.
WPM keeps track of a broad range of metrics, including load-time metrics. The tool offers TCP waterfall charts to help you quickly identify which elements of your pages are taking the most time to load. WPM also lets you monitor website elements including HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and overall performance. You can even get notified for incomplete or slow transactions.
WPM’s transaction recorder tool is a critical part of end user monitoring. The tool lets you quickly and easily capture the ways a user may interact with your web app or site to create a web transaction, with no need to create any scripts. These user experience and test transactions can help you quickly identify slow or failing elements, and WPM’s web-based reports can make it easier to generate insights into page load speeds, transaction help, site availability, and the web page optimization process, so you can ensure a better end user experience.
SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM) is a SaaS web application monitoring solution designed to monitor web applications from the perspective of end users behind the firewall. WPM helps you proactively identify if slow web services are impacting user experience without needing to rely on third-party apps.
Some of the key features of WPM designed to help you improve end user experience are:
User experience monitoring, also called end-user experience monitoring, is a process that lets you monitor the impact of device and application performance from the point of view of an end user. It’s designed to help locate problems with web content and applications, so you can find and fix performance issues before they impact the end-user experience.
User experience monitoring falls under the broader umbrella of web performance monitoring and, as a result, is often covered by the same software solution as web performance monitoring.
Web performance monitoring involves testing and measuring how a web application, website, or other web-based service responds when end users interact with it by collecting data tied to network hop issues, internet latency, and other metrics to help build a snapshot of server or website performance. You can use this performance data to optimize website speed, reduce bounce rates, and improve end-user experience by monitoring transactions addressing the performance of specific sequences to more easily troubleshoot front-end web application issues.
Using a transaction recorder, you can monitor critical site transactions to make sure you’re the first to know of a performance failure that could be affecting your users’ experience. These insights can help you troubleshoot and prioritize your efforts to provide a seamless end-user experience.
If your users don’t have a good experience on your website or web application, they’ll likely leave it. End users have short attention spans and expect a fast-loading site and a seamless digital experience. If you’re not monitoring performance and availability, you could be losing customers and revenue.
Poorly performing webpages and apps can seriously cost you. That’s why effective end-user performance monitoring is important. Some other benefits of monitoring user experience are:
User experience testing is one of the most important steps you can take to optimize your website and web applications. It can let you create different transaction tests to simulate user behavior. Record potential steps taken by end users, such as mouse clicks, text input, file downloads, and matching text strings, so you can monitor performance and get alerted immediately when there’s an issue.
To create a web transaction test to monitor the end user experience, consider the following steps:
Step 1: Figure out your monitoring goals.
Before you start user experience testing, you should outline the goal of your monitoring. Are you monitoring SaaS-based programs to ensure the responsiveness and availability fall within SLAs? Are you measuring the potential impact of specific website and web app changes? Do you want to know if core transactions like shopping and payment processes are performing as users expect? Are you trying to detect if there are any web app bottlenecks occurring in a specific location?
Step 2: Create your task scenarios.
Create task scenarios reflecting real site flows users might try to perform on your site or web app. You want to simulate how real users would achieve their objectives, like checking out, logging in, or using the search field.
Step 3: Use a transaction recorder.
Using a transaction recorder can help you better understand potential performance problems by simulating steps in a web transaction, so you can more easily identify where potential user experience issues may occur.
User monitoring tools can even run transaction tests from remote locations, which means you can troubleshoot performance issues for remote locations and customers no matter where they are.
Step 4: Analyze your results.
The final step is to analyze the results of your testing, adjust accordingly, and then repeat the process to find even more places for improvement. If you have a tool with an integrated application stack management dashboard, this step can be easier. You’ll be able to view detailed load-time metrics, pinpoint slow page elements, and monitor HTML, JavaScript, and HTML elements. You could also run reports on the metrics you need, including web availability, page load speed, or transaction health.
SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM) is built to include tools you need to help perform thorough end user performance monitoring.
With WPM, you can:
Web Performance Monitor comes with an array of tools to help you track user experience and test transactions from any location. Since WPM is installed behind your firewall, the tool makes it easy to monitor internal web applications.
WPM keeps track of a broad range of metrics, including load-time metrics. The tool offers TCP waterfall charts to help you quickly identify which elements of your pages are taking the most time to load. WPM also lets you monitor website elements including HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and overall performance. You can even get notified for incomplete or slow transactions.
WPM’s transaction recorder tool is a critical part of end user monitoring. The tool lets you quickly and easily capture the ways a user may interact with your web app or site to create a web transaction, with no need to create any scripts. These user experience and test transactions can help you quickly identify slow or failing elements, and WPM’s web-based reports can make it easier to generate insights into page load speeds, transaction help, site availability, and the web page optimization process, so you can ensure a better end user experience.
SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM) is a SaaS web application monitoring solution designed to monitor web applications from the perspective of end users behind the firewall. WPM helps you proactively identify if slow web services are impacting user experience without needing to rely on third-party apps.
Some of the key features of WPM designed to help you improve end user experience are:
Web Performance Monitor
Monitor both internal and external resources, including web services and SaaS application performance.
Record user transactions on web apps and sites.
Use detailed load-time metrics to troubleshoot faster.
