An open-source WebPageTest runner that helps teams monitor, analyze, and optimize website performance.
Falco is an open-source WebPageTest runner that helps teams monitor, analyze, and optimize website performance. It automates performance audits, tracks key metrics over time, and enables collaboration across development, operations, and product teams to maintain optimal website speed and user experience.
Development teams, performance engineers, and product managers who need to continuously monitor and improve website performance across their organization.
Falco provides a self-hosted, collaborative platform for continuous performance monitoring that integrates with WebPageTest, making it easy for entire teams to track performance trends and identify regressions before they impact users.
Falco helps you monitor, analyze, and optimize your websites.
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Runs WebPageTest audits multiple times daily under various conditions, automating repetitive performance checks that would otherwise be manual.
Invites developers, ops, and product teams to a shared dashboard, fostering cross-functional performance awareness as emphasized in its philosophy.
Supports auditing entire user journeys on Single Page Applications, with the README linking to external resources for SPA testing recipes.
Can integrate with private WebPageTest instances, offering data control and security for organizations with strict compliance needs.
Default setup relies on Heroku, which requires credit card details and may incur costs for teams, especially with Heroku Teams needing hobby dynos.
Managing the Falco instance demands ongoing updates, security patches, and monitoring, adding operational overhead beyond performance testing.
Primarily tied to WebPageTest without mention of native integrations for alerts or other DevOps tools, potentially requiring custom workarounds.