Sep 14 2025
7 Easy Checks to Keep Your App Running Smoothly
Description: Tired of crashes and slowdowns? Try these 7 easy checks to keep your app lightning-fast and bug-free. Read the full guide and take action today!
In today’s digital world, users expect apps to load fast, work perfectly, and stay bug-free. A small delay or a crash, and you risk losing users forever. Just a slight issue or a crash, and there you go, you lose users forever. But you need not worry about it! It is not really that complicated to ensure your app keeps on running.
The way to ensure a good user experience is through keeping abreast of potential issues such as poor page load times, crashes, and security issues. Routine checks are one of the finest strategies you can adopt to do that and they involve application security monitoring to ensure your application is secure and doing what it is meant to do.
This post will take you through 7 easy checks that can help any app owner, developer, or tech manager improve their app’s performance and reliability.
Human beings make decisions about an app in a few seconds. When your application loads too slow, individuals become anxious or exit without ever viewing what you have.
Begin by performing measurements on the startup time of your app regularly. Use other devices, operating systems, and network conditions. Pay attention to such elements as intense graphics, abundance of third-party scripts, or slow response of the servers all of which are frequent sources of slow loading.
Pro tip: Get a tool to find out what part of your site is really slow, like Google Lighthouse or WebPageTest.
And, do not assume that everything is working. Launch your app and experience it like a new user. Is it easy to subscribe? Buy? Make use of the key features friction-free?
It is amazing how a minor bug and an error can push users to leave the app. Manual testing of user flows can help you ensure that you do not lose track of the real experience your customers are going through.
Pro Tip: Invite your non-technical friends or relatives and tell them to use the app. They are able to find usability bugs that can be easily overlooked by the developers.
There is nothing that frustrates users more than an app crash. And here is the thing, most of them will not say. They will simply uninstall and go away.
To know when, where, and why your app crashes, you should use real-time crash monitoring tools (such as Firebase Crashlytics or Sentry).
These tools provide you the breakdown of devices, version of operating system, and error log so that you can resolve the problem fast. Wait no more to read a terrible review, know your crashes as soon as they happen.
Pro Tip: Prepare on-demand alerts that will notify you about severe crashes in real-time. This can enable your team members to correct problems before they reach more users.
Users today are exceptionally conscious about what apps would be wasting their mobile data or battery. In case your app is among them, it will not stay on their device long enough.
Check the behavior of your app in the background. Does it ping your servers at one-minute intervals? Is it turning on the location services when it needs not?
Battery and data optimization is not a tech requirement, it is a user experience requirement.
Pro Tip: Track the real-world effect of your app on battery and data with the Android Profiler or with Instruments in Xcode.
If your app depends on other programs that a third party has developed, then you will have to update them. Obsolete libraries may bring bugs, performance problems, or even security problems.
It is a good idea to check for updates, most of them come with improvements in speed, bugs, and compatibility. It is a simple thing which avoids serious issues in the future.
Pro Tip: You can use something like Dependabot or Renovate which will notify you when your dependencies should be updated.
Well, if 100 users are working wonders on your app, that is fantastic. But what would happen in the case of 10,000 readers opening it simultaneously?
Load testing assists you in recreating stressful instances of traffic to be able to address the issues prior to your actual users experiencing them. The market strategies are of particular importance prior to launching a promotion, holding a sale, or opening in a new market.
Pro Tip: Stress-test your app to discover the weak links in your infrastructure with the help of Apache JMeter, Loader.io, or Blazemeter.
The fact is that a lot of performance issues will not be noticed, not because they are not there, but because nobody records them. Make time to look through logs, analytics, and user feedback weekly. Do people complain of crashes or bugs in their reviews? Are the errors shooting up post-upgrade?
Remember your user base and they will indicate to you the core of the problem. More importantly, they will assist you in establishing credibility, by demonstrating that you care.
Pro Tip: Configure an automatic notification on the occurrence of certain log patterns (such as recurring error) and feedback analytics tools can be used to cluster together similar issues that end users may report about.
You do not require a large team of engineers and complicated systems to maintain your app in a nonstop condition. You can control most of it with a few clever and consistent measures, such as load time testing, stress testing a real user path, crash tracking, battery usage optimization, upgrading stale code, testing during a traffic burst, and simply listening to your users.
And here, User Experience Management comes into the picture. It assists you to maintain up-to-date on the real-time answers to how people use your app and thus you can continue to make meaningful enhancements without making things excessively difficult. A powerful application must also be based on a solid platform. This is the reason your servers and databases, networks need to be tailored and healthy.
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