BrowserHawk - Top Features

The patent-pending technology in BrowserHawk enables you to track page load times for every visitor to your site in real-time. Unlike traditional monitoring tools, the page load times reported are the actual load times as experienced by your visitors.

Click here for an introduction to BrowserHawk PLT and a discussion of its advantages over traditional page load time monitoring tools and services.

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Page Load Time tracking is only supported with IE 6.0 and higher, Firefox 1.0, and Gecko-based browsers build after February 2006. Please try this demo page with one of these browsers.

What do Latency, Intra, and HitType refer to?

Latency is the amount of time from the user's click, to the point where the next page begins loading. Latency is important because it accounts for both network and application latency. For instance, if the connection between your visitors and your server is spotty, this will be reflected in the Latency. Likewise if your web server or database is slow to respond, this will be picked up in the Latency measurement.

Intra-page load time is the time it takes for a specific page to load. Latency does not factor in to the Intra-page load time. Together Latency plus Intra-page load time yields the total amount of time a visitor waited from the time they first requested the page to the time the requested page finished loading.

HitType is a classification that distinguishes the type of request made by the visitor's browser. The HitType provides information critical for the proper analysis of page load time data. For instance, cCached pages load considerably faster that non-cached pages. If a distinction is not made for cached pages, the data sample would otherwise be contaminated.

Learn more about PLT:

Introduction to BrowserHawk PLT

See the PLT FAQ in the documentation for more details.

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