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.

Hi :slight_smile: The definitions are available here: List of dimensions and metrics | Piwik PRO help center

Hello Kuba, yes I already read that info but it’s still not clear for me. For example: Page generation time: The page loading time on the visitor’s device. Page rendering time: The time taken to create the render tree, layout, and finally draw the website in the browser. Isn’t that the same??

Here you have a nice graph showing all the points in time: Capturing RUM Metrics | Online Help Site24x7 To answer your question - we have to distinguish time needed to display the content and time needed to the point when the content will be interactive. Here’s also a nice article describing it.

I have read the info on [image] Load Time vs Render time. Find out how these metrics affect your website. -... Load Time and Render Time, you probably have seen these two terms before, but you are not sure what they mean. You know they help give a view of a website's speed and performanc…

Difference Page rendering time and Page generation time

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Difference Page rendering time and Page generation time

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