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The Panelbear Blog

Learn more about web performance best practices, how to improve end user experience and how to use website monitoring tools effectively.

Panelbear is shutting down
Panelbear will be shutting down on May 1, 2023. As a small team, we decided to focus our efforts on Panelbear’s successor going forward.
February 10, 2023
Cronitor RUM is now generally available
Over the past year we’ve been listening closely to all feedback and crafted an entirely new product within Cronitor that doubles down on Panelbear’s most beloved features.
February 8, 2023
UTM Parameters: How to Track Your Links
In this guide we'll explore how to use UTM Parameters to track links to your website and how to make the most out of them.
February 6, 2022
Panelbear is joining forces with Cronitor!
This is the story of how we got to know each other and how we ended up merging our bootstrapped companies.
January 20, 2022
Session Duration: How and Why to Measure This Website Metric
Average session duration is an important, but often misunderstood traffic metric. Read on to find out everything you need to know about measuring session duration on Google Analytics and Panelbear.
January 3, 2022
Google Analytics: Users vs Sessions vs Pageviews
In this article we'll be taking a deep dive into three of the most popular metrics around: sessions, pageviews, and users.
December 9, 2021
25 Website Performance Metrics to Watch in 2022
In this guide, I'll cover the most important website performance metrics to monitor, and how to make the most out of them.
December 8, 2021
9 Great Tools For End User Experience Monitoring
Obtaining useful insights on how people use your product is notably difficult. Here's a list of tools to measure end user experience.
November 22, 2021
The Easiest Way to Measure 8 Vital Website Metrics
As a website owner - whether you want to deliver an incredible experience on your website, or increase conversion rates - it's critical to understand how your end users are truly experiencing your site.
November 16, 2021
Simple Guide to Google Analytics & GDPR Compliance
As it collects IP addresses and uses tracking cookies, Google Analytics is not GDPR compliant out of the box. Here’s a privacy-focused alternative SMB’s can use to help stay compliant.
November 11, 2021
Monitoring Next.js Apps in Production
In this guide I'll be showing you how to monitor your Next.js app's live traffic and performance, track custom events, and even set up Slack alerts to get notified when something's up.
September 13, 2021
A Tour of Website Monitoring Tools
Whether you're just getting started, or running a mission-critical website, you'll probably want to have some form of monitoring in place to ensure things are working as expected, and to continuously improve your end-user experience.
August 6, 2021
An Introduction to Core Web Vitals
Web Vitals are a set of standardised metrics proposed by Google, that help understand how visitors are really experiencing a website, rather than relying on performance scores and artificial benchmarks.
July 27, 2021
Website Analytics 101: The Beginner's Guide
A guide to help you get the most out of your website analytics. We'll cover how analytics work, explain common metrics, and share a few tips on what to watch out for.
May 25, 2021
Introducing: The Panelbear API
Today I'm happy to introduce the Panelbear API for all developers. You can now access Stats API: the fast analytics engine that powers all features on Panelbear. In addition, the Sites management API is also available as of today.
May 13, 2021
SaaS vs Self-Hosted: The Hidden Costs
In this article I'll be talking about some major costs and common pitfalls when deciding between self-hosting and using a hosted service.
January 12, 2021