Enhancing Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) with WebPageTest in Catchpoint

WebPageTest has long been the trusted choice for performance experts and top online retailers worldwide to enhance website speed, SEO rankings, user experience, and conversion rates. It provides in-depth diagnostic information on a page's performance, offering actionable insights to measure performance across all major browsers, device types, and network conditions.  

Earlier this year, we announced the incorporation of WebPageTest into our industry-leading Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) Platform, making it a part of Catchpoint’s suite of AI-powered enterprise offerings, which includes Real User Monitoring (RUM), SSO, Security, SLO monitoring, the largest Global Observability Network, and more.  

In May, we launched our enhanced Website Experience Solution, incorporating WebPageTest’s gold-standard functionalities into the Catchpoint portal. We are thrilled about this launch, which allows our enterprise customers to benefit from features such as carbon control (coming soon), running instant tests with any device, browser, and connection speed, and using Opportunities and No-Code Experiments to test the impact of suggested changes on live sites without deploying a single line of code.  

With WebPageTest in Catchpoint IPM, we are eliminating the need to switch platforms to fix front-end issues and optimize performance. This update creates a seamless experience for Catchpoint customers, empowering them to analyze their website's performance in real-time, schedule, monitor, trend, and receive alerts for WebPageTest metrics across various locations, devices, and browsers, all within a single platform.  

‍Key benefits

• Ensure Alignment Across the IT Organization within the same enterprise platform your teams already use to reduce developer toil.
• Facilitate Collaboration: Front-end developers, SREs, DevOps, and WebOps teams can collaborate within a single portal to address performance issues and continuously optimize website performance.
• Enable a Shift-Wide Approach: Use the WebPageTest API to identify and fix issues not only in production, but also in QA, staging, and development environments.  
• Correlate WebPageTest Tests with Real User Insights: Correlate WPT tests with real user insights gleaned from Real User Monitoring (RUM) for a comprehensive understanding of your website's performance and the end-user experience.  

“Incorporating WebPageTest into the Catchpoint IPM Platform marks a significant milestone in our mission to provide unparalleled web performance insights. This empowers our customers to optimize their website experiences seamlessly and achieve Internet resilience by combining the best of both WebPageTest and Catchpoint," says Mehdi Daoudi, Founder & CEO of Catchpoint.  

Features available with WebPageTest on Catchpoint

• Run Instant Tests (Ad Hoc Testing): Understand and improve your website performance in real-time with options to run Lighthouse tests and get your CrUX report. Compare your site performance before and after deployments to ensure successful releases.  
• WebPageTest API: Integrate with CI/CD tools and make website performance an essential part of your CI/CD workflows.  
• Test Records Compare: Easily compare different records on the same screen to track improvements or regressions over time. Additionally, compare individual runs within the same test to see detailed performance in the filmstrip view.
  
• Opportunities & No-Code Experiments: See the impact of recommended changes with our comprehensive experimentation tools. Run no-code experiments, which save time on testing and provide a clear roadmap for performance improvements or conduct advanced experiments for more in-depth analysis and optimization.  
• Carbon Control (coming soon): Measure your website's carbon footprint and run no-code experiments to find ways to improve it.  
• More Features: Utilize custom scripts, view full video in the waterfall to see visual comparisons, access optimization summaries in Assets to evaluate responsiveness, and more options for comprehensive performance analysis.

All these features are now accessible through the Catchpoint Portal using the WebPage Instant Test type.

By incorporating WebPageTest into the Catchpoint IPM Platform, we equip you with the tools to achieve Internet Resilience and deliver a consistently flawless experience for every user, wherever they may be.

To learn more about WebPageTest on Catchpoint, join us for our upcoming webinar, Taking Web Performance to the Next Level. Also, download our Website Experience Solution Brief to discover how to enhance your website for speed, reliability, and resilience.