DebugBear Changelog
Learn about recently added features here. To see upcoming features and make a suggestion check out the roadmap.
23 Feb 2023
February 2023 Release Notes
Use the metric groups feature to customize your site speed dashboards. We've also upgraded Lighthouse and improved our performance recommendations.27 Jan 2023
January 2023 Release Notes
You can now export test results as MP4, edit advanced settings like cookies more easily, and get a breakdown of the Lighthouse Performance score.23 Nov 2022
November 2022 Release Notes
More performance metrics in the overview tab, a new test location in Israel, plus a Google Chrome update.19 Oct 2022
October 2022 Release Notes
We've launched a free tool, improved performance recommendations, and published 3 new articles.26 Sep 2022
September 2022 Release Notes
Better request initiator data, new test locations, and a chrome extension that surfaces observed metrics on PageSpeed Insights.16 Aug 2022
August 2022 Release Notes
New trends view, more details in the request waterfall, new page filter options, and 3 new blog posts.22 Jul 2022
July 2022 Release Notes
Debug each performance metric, view a video recording of the page load process, better Lighthouse audit comparisons, and more on SSL certificates.20 Jun 2022
June 2022 Release Notes
Tracking Google's New Interaction to Next Paint metric, an updated request waterfall, and monthly trends data.25 Mar 2022
March 2022 Release Notes
Run site speed experiments and check browser resource hints are working correctly.7 Feb 2022
February 2022 Release Notes
Timeline annotations, webhooks, body hiding detection, and various UI improvements.20 Dec 2021
December 2021 Release notes
Better weekly emails, identify the cause of LCP more easily, and an upgrade to Lighthouse 9.127 Oct 2021
October 2021 release notes
Core Web Vitals trendlines and a Microsoft Teams integration3 Sep 2021
August 2021 release notes
Better web vitals data and easier request waterfall analysis.22 Jul 2021
July 2021 release notes
New test scheduling options, Lighthouse 8.0, and weekly email reports.1 Jun 2021
May 2021 release notes
Improved data to debug layout shifts and other web performance problems.13 Apr 2021
April 2021 release notes
Test the performance of warm loads, view request headers and response bodies, and collapse the sidebar to focus on metric data.4 Mar 2021
February 2021 release notes
DebugBear now has better support for the User Timing API, new server locations, and various UI improvements.19 Jan 2021
January 2021 release notes
DebugBear now makes it easier to show historical metrics data for all monitored pages.4 Dec 2020
November 2020 release notes
November brought a bunch of UX improvements, including the ability to set up monitoring for multiple test locations and devices at once.1 Nov 2020
October 2020 release notes
DebugBear now supports tagging pages, blocking ads, and comparing aggregate metrics between pages.2 Oct 2020
September 2020 release notes
You can now set up custom test devices and configure network and CPU throttling.24 Aug 2020
August 2020 release notes
Performance test results now include a timeline showing a rendering filmstrip and CPU tasks. You now also disable scheduled tests for monitored pages.30 Jul 2020
July 2020 release notes
Run performance tests multiple times to reduce variability.21 Jul 2020
Improved list of network requests
You can now see more details about each network request, and all columns are sortable.19 Jun 2020
Console tab redesign with code snippets
The Console output view has been redesigned and now includes code snippets where possible.19 May 2020
Lighthouse 6.0
Lighthouse has been upgraded to version 6, introducing new performance metrics.23 Mar 2020
Better and more customizable notifications
You can now customize the default alert critera used by DebugBear.25 Feb 2020
HTML validation
DebugBear now validates the page HTML, in addition to testing site speed and Lighthouse scores.20 Feb 2020
User flows
You can now run user flows before testing a page, for example to add an item to an ecommerce basket or go through a booking flow.14 Feb 2020
API updates: TypeScript typings, custom headers, and access build results
The DebugBear API has been extended and the node module now exports TypeScript types.24 Jan 2020