What is the difference between: Page rendering time, Page generation time and Time to interact? I can’t find more info in the documents or in the forum here. Which metric shows me the real user page load time? I think Page rendering time but I am not sure. Can someone please explain me the differe…

Page generation metric was available there for years. We added additional metrics later on and wanted to keep backward compatibility. Maybe that’s a good timing to clean it up. Thanks for suggestion, I’ll pass this feedback to the development team.

Difference Page rendering time and Page generation time

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Difference Page rendering time and Page generation time

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