🎉 Introducing Performance Monitoring: Continuous, Real-World Speed Insights for Your Web Apps

Today we're thrilled to announce Performance Monitoring for LoadForge—your new command center for understanding exactly how fast (or slow) your application feels for real users, every hour of every day.

For years, LoadForge has helped engineering teams battle-test infrastructure with powerful load testing. Now, with Performance Monitoring, you can keep that performance edge long after the load test is over—spot degradations before users notice, tie every optimization back to a rock-solid score, and prove ROI with clear, shareable metrics.

TL;DR

• Live dashboards that track Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse scores, and response-time trends
• The all-new LoadForge Score—an easy 0-100 grade that blends user-centric and server-side performance
• Historical charts to pinpoint exactly when a deployment introduced (or fixed) a slowdown
• Works on any public URL, no code changes or agents required
• Full docs are already live:
  • Overview
  • LoadForge Score
  • Lighthouse deep dive
  • CrUX metrics
  • Response times

Why Continuous Performance Monitoring?

A one-off load test is like a snapshot. It shows you a moment in time—valuable, but fleeting. Real-world sites change constantly: new features ship, third-party scripts creep in, network routes shift.

Performance Monitoring fills that gap by running lightweight, automated checks on schedule and surfacing the metrics that matter:

• Core Web Vitals (CrUX) – Google's real-user data for Largest Contentful Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift, and more
• Lighthouse Audits – Lab-based audits run in a consistent environment so you can track regressions you introduce
• Server Response Times – p50/p95/p99 latencies right from your response headers
• LoadForge Score – Our blended score to keep stakeholders focused on one easy number

What's in the Box?

1. Beautiful Live Dashboards
   Each monitored URL gets a panel that updates automatically, rolling up frontend, backend, and real-user data.

2. Historical Comparisons
   Jump back in time or overlay deployments to see exactly when performance shifted.

3. Alerting (Coming Soon)
   Get Slack or email pings when your score dips below thresholds.

4. No Code, No Agent
   Just paste a URL—LoadForge spins up the checks in our global fleet.

5. Global Lens
   Tests originate from multiple regions, giving you a realistic picture of latency worldwide.

Take a closer look on the product page: https://loadforge.com/product/performance-monitoring

The LoadForge Score: A Single Number Everyone Understands

Stakeholders don't always want to wade through waterfalls and histograms. The LoadForge Score distills everything into 0-100 so anyone can see if today's build is better or worse than yesterday's. Under the hood, we weight CrUX, Lighthouse, and server response benchmarks—details in the docs: https://docs.loadforge.com/performance/loadforge-score

From Load Testing to Continuous Assurance

Already using LoadForge for stress tests? Performance Monitoring lives right alongside, so after you validate scaling under load, you can track day-to-day performance in production. One platform, two powerful lenses on speed.

Getting Started in 60 Seconds

1. Log in to your LoadForge account (or start a free trial).
2. Navigate to Performance → Monitors.
3. Click "New Monitor", enter the public URL you want tracked, and pick a schedule (hourly by default).
4. Grab a coffee ☕—your first results will appear within minutes.

Need more depth? The quickly growing docs section covers everything from CrUX math to API integration: https://docs.loadforge.com/performance/overview

What's Next?

Performance Monitoring is launching today in Public Beta. Over the coming weeks we'll be adding:

• Custom alert channels (Slack, webhooks, PagerDuty)
• Comparative views across environments (staging vs prod)
• Tag-based grouping for large site portfolios

Have feedback or a feature request? Drop us a note in-app or tweet @LoadForge—we'd love to hear from you.

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Ship faster. Sleep better. Monitor performance continuously.

Spin up your first monitor now → https://loadforge.com/product/performance-monitoring

Happy optimizing! 🎈