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@speedcurve.com alert, fired on its own: FCP (RUM) budget breached, metric at 4.72s. Flat and green for hours, then climbing. Nobody was watching a dashboard. Synthetic gives reproducibility. RUM gives the truth: real users, real devices, real networks.

A fast site isn't a project you close on launch day. It's a state you have to maintain. The alert is the beginning, not the end. Now: root cause, and give users back the experience they expect.

Update: this isn't frontend. TTFB is 27.44s of a 27.93s FCP. 98% of the time is spent waiting for the first byte, and the HTML is 15 KB.