Page speed performance

Plausible is currently focused on web analytics but it would be interesting to expand to cover page speed metrics for performance monitoring and Core Web Vitals too.

That would be awesome!

Can’t you just do it with PageSpeed Insights? There’s an add on for this called Lighthouse. Also, GSC offers insights in Core Web Vitals.

Page speed is the feature I am most looking forward to

I personally think this would branch too much from app analytics and a separate solution would be better for this.

A JS script can’t get that much information about the page speed (as it it loaded after everything else) and thy would require Plausible to do external checks/pinging on the websites themselves.

For example uptime tools like WP Umbrella and Oh Dear! (ohdear.app) have this.

I am indeed wrong. web-vitals library and PerformanceObserver should make this possible. And window.performance

I think this shouldnt be part of Plausible. Plausible is for analytics, for page speed you already have Google Lighthouse or e.g. Vercel implements those insights.

Lighthouse is an auditing tool, it doesn’t measure real user experiences, and Core Web Vitals is limited in scope and detail. RUM would be a great addition to Plausible. Just some basic measurements, like what Piwik and GA provide.