title: Performance of NewRelic Real User Monitoring
body: <p>We're been using NewRelic Real User Monitoring to track performance and activity.</p>
  
  <p>We've noticed that the browser metrics are showing the majority of time is just Network times.</p>
  
  <p>Even extremely small and simple server pages are showing average times of 3-5 seconds, even though they are just a few k in size and their Web application times and rendering times are mere milliseconds.</p>
  
  <p>The site is hosted in the UK and when I run Chrome's Network Developer Tools I can see the page loading in around 50ms and then the hit to beacon-1.newrelic.com (in the USA) taking a further 500ms.</p>
  
  <p>The majority of our clients do not have the luxury of high bandwidth or modern browsers and I believe that NewRelic itself is causing them a particularly poor user experience.</p>
  
  <p>Are there any ways of making the new relic calls perform better? Can I make new relic call to a local (UK or Europe) based beacon?</p>
  
  <p>I don't want to turn off new relic, but at the moment, it is causing more performance issues than it is alerting us to.</p>