Screen Loading

Capture how long it takes for a particular screen to load automatically in your iOS apps.

📘 The way Luciq captures the loading time of your screens depends on whether they are built using UI Kit or SwiftUI.

UI Kit

Luciq automatically captures the time it takes for any UI Kit screen to load. This covers the time for any View Controller between viewDidLoad and viewDidAppear, which includes the following lifecycle methods:

• viewDidLoad

• viewWillAppear

• viewWillLayoutSubviews

• viewDidLayoutSubviews

• viewDidAppear

Spans

Luciq will automatically show spans and operations that occurred during the View Controller loading; these include:

• Network Requests

• Database Queries

• UI Kit Lifecycle methods

End Screen Loading

You can also define custom points in each View Controller to manually inform the SDK that screen loading has ended.

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SwiftUI

🚧 Minimum Required SDK Version

SwiftUI Screen Loading is supported starting iOS SDK v14.0.0

To be able to measure the loading time of your SwiftUI views, you need to instrument your views by wrapping them in our LuciqTracedView component:

Spans

Luciq will automatically show spans and operations that occurred during the SwiftUI view loading; these include:

• Network Requests

• Database Queries

• The body span, which represents how long the body object took to load

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Screen Loading Apdex

Luciq calculates an Apdex score for your app traces as a way of measuring their performance. An Apdex score ranges between 0 and 1; the higher the value, the better:

• Apdex score ≥ 0.94 equates to Excellent performance.

• Apdex score ≥ 0.85 and < 0.94 equates to Good performance.

• Apdex score ≥ 0.7 and < 0.85 equates to Fair performance.

• Apdex score ≥ 0.5 and < 0.7 equates to Poor performance.

• Apdex score < 0.5 is considered Unacceptable.

How Is the Screen Loading Apdex Calculated?

When an app trace occurrence is collected, it is flagged based on a pre-defined target (T). An app trace occurrence is considered:

• Satisfying: if its duration ≤ T

• Tolerable: if its duration > T and ≤ 4T

• Frustrating: if its duration > 4T

Then, based on the bucketing explained above, the Apdex score is calculated as follows:

• Total occurrences = Satisfying occurrences + Tolerable occurrences + Frustrating occurrences

• Apdex score = (Satisfying occurrences + 0.5 * Tolerable occurrences) / Total occurrences

How Can You Control a Specific Screen's Target?

By default, the target is set to 0.1 seconds; however, you can easily change this number from your dashboard by clicking on your current threshold in the Apdex section.