It has been some years since Early Hints became available but its adoption hasn't been as high as preloading or prerendering.

During a page load, one of the most overlooked sources of wait time is not slow assets or unoptimized images, it is the gap between when the browser makes a request and when it receives enough information to start doing something useful, also known as server response time.

That is the exact problem Early Hints was designed to fix!

At SpeedVitals, we're committed to making web performance monitoring easy and accessible to all. We're thrilled to announce that we're launching Real-User Monitoring (RUM), which is a significant step forward to help you gain actionable insights from real-world user experiences.

With this launch, we also had to make changes to our pricing plans to reflect the value and expanded capabilities we provide. These changes will take effect sometime this week and are designed to align the features you get with the impact they deliver for your business.

Today, we are starting a new series on our blog where we will be interviewing Web Performance Enthusiasts and discussing various performance optimization strategies with them.

For the first edition, we have Rishi Raj Jain with us, a Software Engineer who worked as Founding Solutions Engineer at Neon.

The SpeedVitals Team has some exciting news for you! 🚀

We're thrilled to announce the public beta of our Real User Monitoring (RUM)! 🎉

Brotli and GZip are two of the most popular compression algorithms for the web, and their browser support is exceptionally good. But we have a new player in town: ZSTD or Zstandard, which is developed by Facebook.

ZStandard adoption has increased significantly since 2024 when Cloudflare added support for the same. Now it is also available on Cloudflare's free plan and can be enabled using this compression rule. But is Zstandard worth using over Brotli and GZip? Let us find it out today!