What does Real User Monitoring (RUM) aim to analyze?

Real User Monitoring (RUM) is designed to analyze user transactions and interactions within a website or application. Its primary focus is on capturing and understanding the experiences of actual users as they navigate through various digital environments. By collecting data from real users, RUM provides insights into how users are engaging with specific elements on a site or application, including page load times, the time taken to complete transactions, and the responsiveness of the application during user interactions.

This analysis is crucial for identifying user experience issues, optimizing performance, and ensuring that the application meets the needs of its users. Factors such as varying network conditions, user devices, and geographical locations can all impact how users experience an application, which RUM captures effectively.

While network performance metrics, server downtime incidents, and content delivery speed are important aspects of overall application performance and monitoring, they do not encompass the full scope of user interactions as RUM does. Hence, analyzing user transactions provides a more comprehensive view of end-user experiences with a website or application.