PageSpeed.ONE Speed Monitoring Version 4.4 Released: Navigation Types, New Test Setup, and Plenty of Help

We are excited to announce the release of version 4.4 of our web speed monitoring.

We have worked extensively on the help documentation. Additionally, we focused on the automated launch of monitoring PLUS. The main highlight will delight anyone who loves truly fast websites.

Navigation Types Land in PageSpeed.ONE Monitoring#

Quick loading is nice, but how about instant loading? “What, instant loading is possible?” Let us enlighten you.

Browsers have long been able to leverage their own caching capabilities to load a requested page instantly. Some of the options include:

• Back/forward cache (BFcache) – loading from cache for navigation history movements.
• Loading from the browser cache – no request to your server at all.
• Prerendering – preloading a page while still on the previous one, for example using the Speculation Rules API.

For weeks now, Google has been providing data on the distribution of various Navigation Types through its Chrome UX Report. Starting with version 4.4, we also include these in the Domains report.

Here's what it looks like:

The evolution of different navigation types on Mall.cz. As you can see, the faster navigation types occur in only a small percentage of page views.

We hope this new report encourages you to work on optimizing for instant page display. We will certainly write more about Navigation Types in our help documentation.

Automated Setup of New Monitoring PLUS with Ease#

We've been striving to make setting up new monitoring as smooth and pleasant as possible, even though the initial web speed testing takes some time.

We're pleased to announce that from version 4.4, you can set up monitoring PLUS almost as easily as the free tests. Simply set up monitoring PLUS yourself now.

The price for PLUS tests is 210 EUR per year per website. We now also offer a three-month money-back guarantee, so you can try the speed monitoring risk-free.

See the updated pricing.

We've also prepared a loading screen that indicates the progress of testing when setting up both monitoring PLUS and free tests:

User Data (CrUX) Always Takes Priority#

Another change is the prioritization of user data from Google (Chrome UX Report, CrUX) in the Pages report.

User data is generally available for our PLUS customers and is far more important for long-term monitoring than synthetic data.

CrUX leads the way! These data are now at the top of the Pages report because they are significant.

Free tests currently do not include CrUX data for specific pages, as they often serve to test very small websites for which Google simply doesn't have data. We always recommend PLUS tests for professionals.

Confused? Read about the difference between CrUX and synthetic data.

Changelog: All Changes in Version 4.4#

Let's summarize what we launched at the beginning of July on pagespeed.one.

Major Changes#

• Navigation Types added to the Domains report.
• Automated setup of new PLUS tests.
• Pages report: Change in the order of CrUX and synthetic data.
• Help: Basic Information for New Users.
• Help: Speed Watchdog.
• Help: Watchdog Notifications.
• Help: Technical Speed Data.
• Help: Test Run Details.
• Help: CrUX, synthetic, and RUM data.
• Help: TTFB Metric (Server Response).
• Our bot now comes from a single IP address, making it easier to filter out.

Minor Changes#

• UI: Aligned data in graph tooltips into tables.
• UI: Info on various times in the test overview and test run detail.
• UI: Fixed premature URL truncation in tables.
• UI Graphs: Better rendering of zero values.
• Email Invitation: Info for new users to sign in.
• Email Invitation: Onboarding info in the text.
• Bug: Fixed crash when filtering domains.
• Bug: Error in the Opportunities report caused by Lighthouse 12.
• Bug: Fixed revival of inactive URL that was part of a deleted test.
• Bug: Changing a note in graphs now reflects late on the bubble.
• Help: Moved almost all articles from the consulting blog to help.

Internal but Still Important Adjustments#

• Conducted major deletions of older free test data. Tests not added to a team are now deleted after a month.
• Worked on the first demo of our next big product – personalized advice.
• Addressed AWS performance fluctuations that occasionally affected some metrics.
• Transitioned to our own AWS and increased quotas for parallel running tests.
• Improved monitoring of database queries.
• Tidied up the code.

Thank you for your attention and for using our speed monitoring.

We welcome any feedback on the speed tester and, of course, bug reports. Write to us at info@pagespeed.cz or simply chat with us directly in the app.

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