DebugBear alternative, updated november 2024
Monitor your whole website speed, not just individual pages
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Web performance monitoring tools help teams identify and fix speed issues, but choosing the right solution depends on your specific needs. This comparison breaks down the key differences between DebugBear and PageVitals to help you make an informed decision.
DebugBear excels at detailed page-level analysis, making it a strong choice for teams focusing on optimizing individual URLs. PageVitals also monitors individual pages, but takes a broader approach with comprehensive website-wide dashboards, helping teams spot performance trends and issues across their entire site. For complex user journeys, PageVitals offers advanced multistep testing capabilities that track performance metrics seamlessly across multiple page navigations.
Oh, let's not forget, our prices are around 20% of DebugBear's, so we're easier on the budgets.
| DebugBear Startup + RUM Plan | PageVitals Growth Plan | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $200 | $39 |
| Synthetic tests | 4000 | 5000 |
| Core Web Vitals | ✓ | ✓ |
| RUM pageviews | 500,000 | 250,000 |
| Chrome UX Report | ✓ | ✓ |
| Performance Budgets | ✓ | ✓ |
| RUM / Field Testing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Waterfall chart | ✓ | ✓ |
| HTML validation | ✓ | ✓ |
| REST API | ✓ | ✓ |
| JS API | ❌ | ✓ |
| CI/CD integrations | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multistep tests / journeys | Limited to one navigation | Unlimited navigations |
| Custom tags and variables | ❌ | ✓ |
PageVitals helps me monitor multiple pages on a site over time to track more realistic Lighthouse scores instead of just tracking in isolation at the site's launch. We are also able to see which pages need to be reviewed and improved.
Synthetic vs. Field Testing
Synthetic testing allows you to get an idea of how your website performs depending on server locations, whereas Field testing allows you to measure your site's performance as it's experienced in the wild.
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