Bits Per Second

HowBloated: how much memory does your website eats up?

Some browser tabs eat up a lot of memory. This makes it hard to browse the internet on old or cheap devices. I created HowBloated to tell you how bloated your web page is. In this article, I explain how HowBloated works, and surprising findings I made along the road.

Features

Introducing HowFast APM: monitor response time from inside your application!

HowFast Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tracks the response time of all the real-world requests made by your users, to give you better insights into your backend performance.

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Improve your application quality by monitoring your uptime with health endpoints

An application can go down for a large number of reasons, and your users or customers don't like when your application is down. Learn how to use health endpoints to better monitor your application or website's availability.

HowFast

Monitoring performance from the inside: introducing HowFast APM

While HowFast Monitor lets you track availability and response time from outside your infrastructure, we needed another service to monitor it from the inside, and on the actual requests made by real users. Discover what are your slowest endpoints with HowFast APM - free beta!

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Announcing a new feature: monitoring from Google Cloud Platform

What happens if your services AND your monitoring service are hosted on the same datacenter or AWS region, and... this region experiences a major outage? At HowFast, we got you covered.

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More transparency about our reliability: introducing the performance report

Transparency provides the data points to make informed decisions. Let's be transparent about our reliability.

Performance

What is your ideal DNS TTL?

Looking at the response times of multiple websites tracked with HowFast, I realized that many of them could be made faster by adjusting the DNS TTL.

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A new blog for HowFast

Hello there! I recently moved HowFast from Medium to Ghost, the open-source publishing platform. The reasons include Medium's "get the app", "sign up now", or "you have 4 free articles remaining" messages, that destroy the reader's experience and personally annoy me.

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New feature: detailed response time

Last week, we introduced a popular new feature in HowFast called “split time”. You can now see a more detailed view of your backend response time, with the portion of time spent in DNS resolution, TCP connection, TLS handshake, waiting for your server...

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Introducing HowFast, the server performance monitoring tool

Want to monitor your server's performance? Discover HowFast, my latest tool to track how fast your server answers HTTP requests. And guess what? It's completely free and checks every single minute.