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A Quick Guide to Getting Started with New Relic

Are you new to New Relic? Looking to get a little deeper than the overview graphs? This is an introduction and first in a series of UI walkthroughs for our site. Our UI exposes a lot of information in a little bit of space and it can be easy to miss available functionality. To get [...]

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Browser Wars: A New Installment of our Ongoing Series on Browser Speed

It’s time for another installment of our “Browser Wars” blog series. Thanks to our Real User Monitoring (RUM) feature, we are able to periodically report on average browser speed experienced by the end users of the nearly 700,000 application instances monitored by New Relic. For the curious, New Relic monitors just over 1 million pageviews [...]

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Looking For Something To Do Tonight? Join Chris Kelly at the SF PHP Meetup!

Are you in San Francisco and looking for something interesting to do tonight? If so, look no further. Chris Kelly, New Relic’s Developer / Evangelist, will be discussing Real User Monitoring at the San Francisco PHP Meetup. In his session, Chris will describe how to use RUM to understand your application through the eyes of [...]

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More App Speed Index Data for More People

You’ve asked for it, and we’ve heard you! Many people have said that the App Speed Index feature would be way more useful if the barrier to entry was lower. 20 pages per minute of end-user througput is a lot to ask for. Maybe your app is for internal use only or your startup is [...]

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How We Tune Our Own App Using RUM Data

Around here we drink our own champagne and we use New Relic to tune New Relic. We recently set some fairly aggressive performance standards for ourselves by lowering our end user Apdex-T value to 2.4 seconds, which is rather fast. We’re saying that our users expect our pages to load in 2.4 seconds or less. Our [...]

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