New Relic Browser provides deep visibility and insight into how your users are interacting with your application or website. New Relic Browser measures page load timing, also known as real user monitoring (RUM), but it goes far beyond that to measure:
- Individual session performance
- AJAX requests
- SPA-architecture route changes
- JavaScript errors
With this added functionality, New Relic extends real user monitoring to include the entire life cycle of a page or a view.
Full life cycle monitoring
Many websites contain dynamic content that is loaded after the initial page has finished loading, and complex JavaScript code increases the need for error reporting. After you verify compatibility requirements to download and install New Relic Browser for your app, you get visibility into your users' entire experience, from the front end of your app to its back-end performance, plus the individual interactions during a user's webpage session (up to ten minutes).
Expanding far beyond legacy real user monitoring solutions, New Relic Browser monitors full page life cycle data, well beyond the initial page load. The UI also shows events throughout the individual user's session, allowing you to pinpoint problem areas and easily identify solutions.
For each end user page load, New Relic captures:
- Time spent in the front end (browser)
- Time spent in the back end (network and web app)
- Geographic origin
- Browser type and version, and operating system
For customers monitoring single-page application (SPA) architectures, New Relic captures route change data and associated AJAX requests.
Browser presents app data in charts, maps, and tables. You can view the data globally across all users and see it sliced and diced by webpage, browser, user session, and location. In addition, New Relic Browser enhances New Relic's original real user monitoring (RUM) feature with expanded functionality, detailed charts, and focused data.
[video link] For a product tour of New Relic Browser, watch this video (2½ minutes).
Enhanced (Pro) features
Depending on your New Relic subscription level, you can capitalize on these enhanced features.
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Your website's performance at a glance |
Summary charts show:
Links from the Overview page allow you to explore even deeper levels. |
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Timeline of page load and user interaction events during a webpage's full life cycle |
This detailed and intuitive visualization of all events in the user's session can help pinpoint problem areas and easily identify solutions. The Session traces page provides:
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Time-consuming or failing AJAX calls affecting webpage performance |
The AJAX page helps identify page load timing problems from the users' experience when you have time-consuming AJAX calls to update parts of the webpage. Charts show data including:
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Browser errors in production over time |
To help identify problems you may not have tested for, or problems your users are experiencing that you may not have easily seen, the JS errors page shows:
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Monitoring for single-page app (SPA) architectures |
When SPA monitoring is enabled, Browser's Page views page shows you:
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Standard features
Regardless of your New Relic subscription level, these features are available for all New Relic Browser users.
| New Relic Browser pages | Standard features |
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Your website's performance at a glance |
Summary charts that show:
Additional charts on your Browser Overview page depend on your New Relic subscription level. |
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Insights into your site's popularity |
Detailed information about the top webpages viewed (with URL based metrics), timing and throughput details, and links to browser or session traces as applicable. |
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Webpage performance by location |
Color-coded Apdex scores and other data about your end users' experience around the world or in a specific region or state. |
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Problem patterns by browser type or platform |
Your end users' experience with your app segmented by the browser they use, such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Apple Safari. You can drill down to view:
This helps you quickly determine whether problems with page load timing may be related to a specific browser type or platform, or whether the problem is more widespread. |
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Analysis of slow user transactions from end to end |
Browser traces show the timing breakdown for a single page load, along with geography and browser type information. Aggregate data for the related page view provides a baseline comparison, and a link allows you to quickly run a performance test. If you have New Relic Browser Pro features, Session traces replace Browser traces. |
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UI options for browser monitoring |
An easy way to turn the New Relic Browser product on or off, including the option to enable or disable specific features. For example, you can:
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For more help
Additional documentation resources include:
- Compatibility and requirements (prerequisites for your app to use New Relic Browser)
- Adding apps to New Relic Browser (installation and configuration procedures)
- Upgrading the Browser agent (checking your New Relic Browser version number and upgrading to the latest version)
- Security for New Relic Browser (security considerations incorporated into New Relic Browser)
- New Relic Browser website (product information and links to resources)