How to Read a Synthetic Waterfall Chart

A waterfall chart is an essential diagnostic tool for your web pages. If you care about how fast your pages load and what might be slowing them down, then you need to have at least a basic understanding of waterfall charts. Image by Freepik Pages can be slow for a myriad of reasons, from a sluggish back end to latency to unoptimized third-party scripts that block the rest of the page from rendering.