Real User Monitor: See How Fast Your Site Feels to Real Visitors
How fast your site really feels to visitors, and a warning when it slows.
The Real User Monitor is the real user monitoring tool in the Ai1 platform by MyZone AI: one small, lightweight tag measures how fast your site feels to actual visitors, warns you when pages slow down and explains what changed, while fixes go to whoever looks after your site.
A slowdown shows up as a warning with the pages and devices affected, instead of a quiet dip in sales you only spot later.
The real experience, not a guess
Speed is measured on your visitors' own phones, laptops and connections, so you see what they actually live through.
A clear why, and who can fix it
Each slowdown comes with the likely cause, when it started and a ready request for the person who can fix it.
Privacy by design
No cookies, nothing stored on visitors' devices and no tracking of who a visitor is. You get page speed, not personal data.
Meet your agent
Get to know Dwayne
Dwayne enjoys seaside walks and dislikes waiting for a page to settle. He measures how your website feels to visitors, spots slowdowns and explains which pages or devices need attention, leaving changes to the people who maintain your site.
AI agent. Fictional persona; not a real person.
Dwayne, the persona of the Real User Monitor
Name
Dwayne C.
Role
Website Performance Monitor
Experience
9 years
Work history
Web performance analyst at a regional online retailer Digital support specialist at a neighbourhood web studio
Personality
Spots changing patterns, explains without jargon
Based in
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Why Dwayne has a personality
AI does better work as a specific expert, so the Real User Monitor works as Dwayne (Website Performance Monitor, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago). You can rename Dwayne or change the personality, experience and profile settings at any time.
A small, lightweight tag on your site, with a check that the first visits are coming through
Measures
Page speed, load time, responsiveness, layout shifts, errors, views and bounce from real visitors
Breakdowns
By page group, page, device, browser, country and connection type, hour by hour
You approve
The thresholds that trigger a warning
Visitor privacy
No cookies and nothing stored on visitors' devices; IP addresses only find the country
What it never does
Change your website; fixes go to whoever looks after it
Capabilities
What the Real User Monitor does for you
Measures real visits
A small tag on your site records page speed, load time, responsiveness, layout shifts, errors, views and bounce from real visitors.
Breaks it down the way you think
See speed by page group, page, device, browser, operating system, country and connection type, hour by hour and day by day.
Spots slowdowns
Detection rules watch for pages getting slower, confirm a real change before calling it and note when things recover.
Diagnoses what changed
It compares periods, lines slowdowns up against your releases and points to the pages, devices and browsers that got worse.
Shows it on one dashboard
A Real Users view gives you trends, comparisons and problem areas at a glance, with a deeper details view when you need it.
Keeps visitor data private
No cookies, no stored identifiers, and IP addresses are used only to find the country, then thrown away. The data stays pseudonymous.
How the Real User Monitor differs from a one-off lab speed score
A lab speed score loads your page once and says little about the visitor on an older phone or a slow connection. The Real User Monitor measures real visits on their own devices, so you see which pages, browsers and countries drag. It confirms a slowdown is real before warning you, lines it up against your releases and hands your web team a ready request. It never changes your site.
How this differs from the Page Speed Monitor: For scheduled speed checks of your key pages rather than measurements from real visitors, use the Page Speed Monitor.
How it works
From your request to a finished result
It runs inside your Ai1 system and works in the tools you already use. You ask, it works, it reports, and it stops for your OK where it matters.
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Step 1: Add your site
Tell it which website to watch. It sets up the site, its page groups and a small tag for your site.
Step 2: Install the tag
Your web person or your agents put the tag on your site. It then checks that the first visits are coming through.
You approve
Step 3: Agree what counts as slow
You approve the thresholds that trigger a warning. Loosening or switching off monitoring later is always your call.
Step 4: Watch and compare
Real visits roll up into hourly and daily history, and the dashboard shows how things are trending.
Step 5: Warn and explain
When pages slow down you get a warning with what changed, since when, how much slower and who can fix it.
When to use it
Hand these situations to the Real User Monitor
Illustrative photo. Ask why the product pages feel slower on customers' phones.
If this is you…
…here's what it does
Checkout feels slow on phones this week
See which page group, device and browser got slower, since when and by how much, with a ready request for your web team.
You just shipped a site update
Release markers sit on the timeline, so you can see whether speed changed after the update or before it.
Your lab speed score looks fine but sales dipped
Real visitor data shows what lab tests miss: slow networks, older phones and the countries where pages drag.
You want to know which pages matter most
Views, visits and bounce by page group show where slow pages cost you the most attention.
You want to compare this month with last
It puts the two periods side by side and shows which pages, devices and countries got faster or slower.
What you get
A small, lightweight tag for your site, with a first-visit check
A Real Users dashboard with trends, breakdowns and comparisons
Real visitor history by page, device, browser, country and connection
Slowdown warnings with the likely cause and when it started
Plain-language diagnosis with a ready request for whoever fixes the site
Release markers on the timeline so you can tie changes to updates
Example: weekly real-user speed report with a slowdown diagnosis
Example with a fictional company. Names, people and figures are invented to show the agent's output. Any resemblance to a real company or person is unintended.
What it was asked: How fast does our store feel for real shoppers this week, did anything get slower, and who needs to fix it?
Example report
This week at a glanceSlowdown diagnosis: product pages on phones since Thursday 8 OctoberWhere shoppers feel it: phone product pagesAlert rules, privacy and next steps
What it found: 3 findings, with the numbers
Product pages on phones slowed from 2.3 to 3.4 seconds to show the main image from Thursday 8 October, the only confirmed slowdown across about 48,200 visits this week.
The slowdown began within minutes of the 10:40 am product gallery update, is worst on Mobile Safari at 3.6 seconds, and layout shift on phones rose from 0.05 to 0.18.
Store-wide visitor satisfaction (Apdex) fell from 0.91 to 0.86 and phone bounce on product pages rose from 41% to 47%; a ready fix request is drafted for the web team.
This is an illustrative example of the weekly report Real User Monitor is being built to produce: page-group summary, slowdown diagnosis, visitor breakdowns and alert rules. It was written by hand from the agent's design for an invented store, with invented visit counts and timings. No real website, visitor data, systems or people were involved, and nothing was sent or changed. Run date: .
Want a speed report like this for your own website? Book a Real Users walkthrough.
Fixes the slow pages Real User Monitor points to and can install the tag.
Common questions
Frequently asked questions about the Real User Monitor
Why does field performance data matter more than a single lab score?
Field data comes from your visitors' own devices and networks, so it shows the slow phones, older browsers and far-away countries a one-off lab test never sees. The Real User Monitor records it from real visits and breaks it down by page, device, browser and country.
How do website slowdown alerts work?
Detection rules watch for a confirmed change in page speed rather than one slow visit. The Real User Monitor warns you with the pages and devices affected, since when and how much slower. You approve the thresholds, and it notes when things recover.
Can RUM monitoring respect visitor privacy?
Yes, when it measures speed without identifying anyone. The Real User Monitor sets no cookies, stores nothing on visitors' devices and uses an IP address only to find the country. Privacy and consent decisions still stay with you and your advisers.
What is real user monitoring and how is it different from a speed test?
A speed test loads your page once in a lab. Real user monitoring measures every sampled visit on your visitors' own devices and networks, so you see how your site really feels across phones, browsers and countries.
Does the tag track who my visitors are?
No. It sets no cookies, stores nothing on visitors' devices and uses an IP address only to find the country before throwing it away. You get pseudonymous page speed data, not personal profiles.
How does it decide a page has really slowed down?
Detection rules look for a confirmed change, not a single slow visit. It checks the slowdown holds before warning you, notes when things recover and labels any period where the data may not be reliable. You approve the thresholds.
Can it fix the slow pages it finds?
No. It tells you what got slower, since when and the likely cause, then gives you a ready request for whoever looks after your site.
How do I see the results?
On a Real Users dashboard with trends, breakdowns and comparisons, or just ask a question like why checkout is slow on phones this week.
Is the Real User Monitor available now?
Not yet. Your Ai1 team will tell you when the Real User Monitor is ready for your account. You can talk to us today about the pages you would want it to watch.
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