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We used this to generate dynamic share cards for our core web vitals checker tool (plug: https://calibreapp.com/tools/core-web-vitals-checker ). Previously new uncached requests fo…

My company moved a 600GB postgres db to crunchydata ( https://www.crunchydata.com ), the process was super smooth. In fact, it went so well that I agreed to a quick case study: htt…

That's what I took from it yep.

Hi, I'm the author :-) I've left significant levels of details about pagespeed on the lighthouse issue tracker over the last few months. It's really frustrating to see the lighthou…

Because it's in the code and it's factually correct. It felt weird to not mention it!

… but to answer your question better. It sucks that Google's own services don't live up to the performance expectations of tools made in other parts of Google.

Hi! Author of the post here. Lighthouse definitely has some improvements to make for the audit suggestions that offer advice to improve the score. I think people get a little bit f…

Sure! Here goes: The App itself is boring old rails, with postgres (get me started on how much I like postgres and I will literally bore you to tears.) The original views were all …

Please do! There's a fairly relaxed 14 day trial. (And you get a fresh trial if you create a new "team"/organisation

Web page test is a succhhh a great tool, and its really great for one off tests. Calibre will automatically hit your site daily (or, when you ping the snapshot api), and you'll hav…

Without being super familiar with the tech that any of these companies are running — The biggest thing that sets Calibre apart is that its entirely built using the Chrome developer…

Yeah… that animation isn't what it should be for a performance product—luckily, after this (and the lighthouse integration I'm working on right now), I'll have all-new marketing to…

Atm, the focus is clean room, but real time/user metrics are on the horizon—especially when the company is more than just me!

Hi HN! I'm Ben, the solo founder of Calibre Analytics: https://calibreapp.com . Calibre monitors websites and applications in a clean-room testing environment from all over the wor…

Hi HN! I'm Ben, the solo founder of Calibre Analytics: https://calibreapp.com . Calibre monitors websites and applications in a clean-room testing environment from all over the wor…

You're right.