- Barath Krishnamoorthy, Cognizant RUM - Future of Monitoring Beginning 2012 Real User Monitoring (RUM) Using Google Analytics Site Speed

Flow Of Content  Real User Monitoring  Synthetic Monitoring  Google Analytics  Google Analytics Site Speed  Site Speed Report  Explorer Tab  Explorer Tab Metrics Details  Performance Tab  Map Overlay Tab  Identifying Overhead and Recommendations

Real User Monitoring  What It is a passive web monitoring technology that gathers statistics of real user with a website  How Relied on real user traffic No real user traffic, then no statistics

Synthetic Monitoring  What It is an active web monitoring technology that gathers statistics of simulated user with a website. The simulation can be done by scripted real user browsers  How Relied on simulated web traffic No real user traffic, still statistics available

Google Analytics Google Analytics is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. This service is free upto 5 million page Views per month unless web site is linked to Adwords Campaign  How to setup Add JavaScript snippet code to your webpage var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = (' == document.location.protocol ? ' : ' + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); Source:

Google Analytics Site Speed Site Speed is a report metrics available in Google Analytics which provides the statistics about performance of the web site for the sampling of the pageviews  How to setup It is automatically enabled once you setup Google Analytics

Site Speed Report It provides the web site load time in three different perspectives  Explorer tab Average load time by dimension  Performance tab Load time break down by speed range  Map Overlay tab Load time break down by geography

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Explorer Tab Explorer tab lists the page as the primary Dimension  Siteusage Tab It provides the statistics in the context of other analytics metrics  Technical Tab It provides the statistics by breaking of network and server time etc  Measurement can be drilldown by secondary dimensions Content Traffic Sources Visitor Technology

Explorer Tab Metrics Details  Siteusage metrics Average Page Load Time Pageviews Page Load Sample Bounce Rate %Exit  Technical Metrics Average Redirection Time Average Domain Lookup Time Average Server Connection Time Average Server Response Time Average Page Load Time

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Performance tab  Performance tab lists page views by speed range  Useful to analyze that pages are loaded within acceptable speed.  Useful when Outlier screws the Average Page Load Time metrics

Company Logo Performance tab – Page Load Time Bucket

Company Logo Performance Tab - Server Response Time Bucket

Map Overlay Tab  It provides the load time break down by geographic location.  Metrics can be drilldown by secondary dimension

Company Logo Map Overlay Tab - Country/Territory

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Identifying Overhead and Recommendations MetricsOverheadRecommendations Avg. Redirection Time Page Components Design If possible, reduce the redirection depth Avg. Domain Lookup Time DNS ServerAdd more DNS Servers to end users location or Improve caching on DNS Servers Avg. Server Connection Time Web Server/End user browser Add more web servers if web site is tuned very well. If not, tune the web servers to handle more loads. Avg. Server Response Time Application Server/Database Either server side software or Database is taking more time Avg. Page Download Time Web ServerWeb server issue. It requires monitoring on the web server to find out it is because of resource crunch.

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