What kind of testing do Browser monitors perform in Dynatrace?

Browser monitors in Dynatrace are designed to perform full page load tests that simulate the experience a user would have while interacting with a web application. This involves loading the entire webpage and capturing various performance metrics related to user experience, such as load times, rendering times, and resource loading sequences. By simulating a real user scenario, full page load tests provide insights into how quickly and effectively a web application responds, allowing for the identification of potential performance bottlenecks that could affect actual users.

This comprehensive approach helps enhance the understanding of user satisfaction and performance issues from a browser's perspective, which is critical for optimizing the overall user experience. It emphasizes the importance of analyzing not just server response times but also how the client-side rendering impacts users. Other types of monitoring, like backend server checking or network latency analysis, do not provide the same level of insight into the actual user experience during a full page load.