SEOs will love this: Continuously monitor your sites core web vitals with VitalFrog
TLDR: Today is the launch day of my website performance monitoring tool VitalFrog. It tracks the core web vitals with live data and visualizes it nicely for you. Email alerts coming soon.
After finish a huge frontend rework in my main job to get our core web vitals in shape, we thought that we are finally done with the project.
About a month later we saw our Google rankings dropping again and figured during product upgrades we increased the CLS again. The fix took us like 2 hours, but due to the 28 days window of the Google Data, it took us close to another month to actually recover from this drop.
Researching for monitoring options, I found different suboptimal solutions which all where either loosing out on data or required a massive effort to actually put in place.
This is where the idea for VitalFrog came from: A simple-to-use tool that emails you alert if your web vitals get worse.
After about two month of working on VitalFrog this is the day I finally was able to get the site live.
The product is still in alpha phase and actually the core value proposition: Email alerts are not implemented yet. But for the alerts to actually be valuable it makes sense for the customers to join anyways as in order to figure out a performance regression VitalFrog needs some historical data.
Quite proud to have this out the door and now I have to focus on getting people on the product :D
Would be really lovely if you would check it out. If you do technical SEO it is definitely a tool that will improve your day-2-day quality of life as you will not have to check the Google Performance dashboard every other day.
Free, as in "I did not build the Stripe integration yet" :D
