For your app to be a hit with users, you’ll need to understand its performance by analyzing and resolving issues that arise during and after its development. The challenge to this approach is finding an effective way to do this without expending too many resources. Enter performance monitoring. Performance monitoring of your app allows you to gain insight into your app’s performance, and diagnose app performance issues that might occur your users’ devices. It is powered by automatic and customized performance tracing. With the right tools, performance monitoring facilitates your understanding of the modifications needed for an optimal app. Firebase offers a great way to monitor the performance of your app.
Firebase Performance Monitoring is a service that allows users to gain insights into the performance characteristics of their iOS and Android apps so that they can channel their resources effectively to fixing app performance issues. With this service, you can use traces to monitor the performance of your app’s precise parts, which you then view in the Firebase console. It allows you to manage startup time and HTTP requests without having to write any code. What’s more, Firebase Performance Monitoring offers detailed insights into how your app performs in real-time. This way, you quickly see ways to customize your apps to suit users better.
It starts with the installation of the Performance Monitoring SDK. This installation automatically delivers app start traces that measure the apps startup time (the time between when the user opens the app and when the app becomes responsive). These traces could either be the :
App in foreground traces: This describes the time when the app is running in the foreground and available to the user. Firebase also allows you to configure custom traces that provide reports of performance data linked with some of the code in your app. With APIs availed by the Performance Monitoring SDK you can determine the beginning and end of a custom trace. You could also record custom metrics for performance-related events that might occur by using the SDK to capture these metrics:
Response
time:
This occurs in the frame between when the request is made and when
the response is fully received
Payload
size:
This refers to the byte size of the network payload downloaded and
uploaded by the app
Success
rate:
This refers to the percentage of successful responses when paralleled
to total responses
The Performance Monitoring SDK essentially batches events locally, which are then sent to Firebase periodically. After implementing the Performance Monitoring of your app, you can then deploy the updated version to users.
Performance Monitoring does not have to be tedious. You can efficiently execute the process using Firebase, which offers one of the best ways to monitor your app’s performance.