Patent ID: 7730193

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for grouping metrics, comprising: receiving, at a server, respective requests for respective web pages from a plurality of respective web browsers, each respective web browser providing a respective request for a respective web page, the server runs an application with which the respective web browsers interact; responsive to each respective request, the server obtains the respective web page, embeds code in the respective web page by adding at least one statement to the respective web page, and provides a response to the respective web browser which includes the respective web page with the embedded code, the code is in a file which is executed by the respective web browser when the respective web page is loaded by the respective web browser, causing the respective web browser to provide, to the server, information identifying a respective time zone in which the respective web browser is located, the respective web browsers are located in different time zones; obtaining performance metrics associated with the application by monitoring a performance of the application as the respective web browsers interact with the application; and providing the metrics and the information identifying the respective time zones to a manager, in response to which the manager provides a report in which the metrics are grouped according to time zone, and the metrics are aggregated for at least one of the respective time zones for multiple respective web browsers of the plurality of respective web browsers which have provided information to the server identifying a common time zone.