WebPageTest Reborn: From Speed Tests to Complete Digital Performance

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Catchpoint unveiled a significant upgrade to WebPageTest, making it fully enterprise-ready and seamlessly integrated into the Catchpoint Platform.

With this upgrade, Catchpoint extends the capabilities of WebPageTest far beyond page load metrics. The tool now delivers a comprehensive view across the Internet Stack, including global synthetics, Real User Monitoring (RUM), user journeys, DNS, CDN, and more. 

For years, the web performance community has trusted WebPageTest for its deep diagnostics, unmatched visibility, and actionable optimization guidance. This includes filmstrips, opportunities, and no-code experiments that teams rely on daily. With this launch, WebPageTest builds on that proven legacy, adding scheduled tests, AI-powered dashboards, alerting, and multi-user access for team collaboration as standard, delivering enterprise-grade power, global Internet visibility, and intelligence. 

Why WebPageTest matters more than ever 

In today’s market, digital experience is more than a brand pillar; it is the brand. Nearly half of users expect a website to load in two seconds or less, and 53% of mobile users leave a website if it takes over three seconds to load. Google’s Core Web Vitals are now even more critical for SEO and AI search optimization, with speed, interactivity, and visual stability directly impacting revenue and customer trust. Yet, many monitoring tools still provide only partial insights, leaving blind spots in DNS, CDN, and user journeys. 

WebPageTest now closes this gap by offering the only complete view of digital experience in the industry, moving beyond front-end code to include every aspect of Internet performance that impacts users. With unified, end-to-end insights, only WebPageTest empowers teams to move faster, dig deeper, and ensure the best digital experience across the Internet Stack. 

For organizations looking to expand toward enterprise-grade visibility and deeper insights, new capabilities are now available within the Catchpoint platform, enabling advanced monitoring, analytics, and automation across the full Internet Stack. 

Key capabilities now available with IPM 

  • Holistic Digital Experience Scores: Advanced scoring with experience-level objectives (XLOs). 
  • Visibility and Diagnostics: Classic WebPageTest waterfalls and filmstrips, enhanced with AI-powered dashboards. 
  • AI-Powered Digital Dependency Map of your web application or service with automated root cause analysis and correlation with internet outages. 
  • Intelligent Monitoring Strategy guidance and setup with Catchpoint Advisor  
  • Unified Monitoring: RUM + advanced synthetics in one platform. 
  • Opportunities & No-Code Experiments: Rapid iteration without engineering overhead. 
  • Session Replay: Full context into end-user journeys. 
  • Enterprise-Grade Scale & Reach: 3,000+ global monitoring agents, full Internet Stack visibility, long-term data retention, unlimited users, SSO, and workflow integrations. 

“This is not just a reboot, it’s a rebirth,” said Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint. “With WebPageTest fully integrated into the Catchpoint platform, web teams can finally go beyond page metrics to monitor and optimize the entire end-user experience. Whether protecting revenue, safeguarding SEO, or earning customer trust, WebPageTest now delivers the accuracy, performance guidance, scale, and global visibility enterprises need to thrive.” 

“WebPageTest has long been the most advanced tool in any performance engineer’s toolbox,” says Rich Howard, CEO at Optimal. “This closer integration with the broader Catchpoint suite gives us new and exciting capabilities to identify where and why users experience friction in their journey.”  

“By uniting synthetics, RUM, DNS, and CDN visibility, we’re giving teams the power to detect, diagnose, and resolve issues across the full Internet Stack, before users ever notice,” said Dritan Suljoti, CTO of Catchpoint. “And now, by bringing front-end teams and SREs together on a common platform with shared data, dashboards, and workflows, WebPageTest empowers everyone to speak the same language of digital experience and work collaboratively to optimize every user’s journey.” 

With WebPageTest, Catchpoint is ushering in the next era of IPM, empowering organizations to optimize speed, resilience, and customer trust in an increasingly demanding digital landscape.

To learn more about the enhanced capabilities, visit the website and explore the latest innovations in WebPageTest.

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