Getting started with Web Performance Benchmarking

Benchmarks let you track the relative performance of a set of web pages on one or more websites. You don't have to be the site owner of the sites in your benchmark, so you can compare any sites you like.

When you create a benchmark, you're telling Yottaa Monitor agents (real browsers in the cloud) to periodically visit the URLs in your benchmark and capture their performance metrics. Then these metrics -- things like Yottaa Score, DNS time, time to display, etc -- are presented in a graph so you can tell at a glance how they compare.

Note the benchmark monitoring is low-frequency (currently 3x/day from 5 locations) so it's intended for relative comparison and general performance trending, rather than testing uptime or availability. Also, by default the benchmarks you create are visible to the public. You can search through public benchmarks created to see what sites other people care about. If you prefer to create a private benchmark, you can mark it "private" so only you can see it.

You'll find your benchmarks in your dashboard. Try creating one now!