WordPress dominates the CMS market, powering 43.6% of all websites, which translates to over 810 million sites. Its popularity brings challenges, particularly with performance. Common issues include slow plugins, database problems, and large assets that can significantly delay page loading. To maintain a fast and reliable site, comprehensive monitoring is essential. Key areas to monitor include the application code, underlying infrastructure, web server performance, database efficiency, and end-user experience. Tools like New Relic's Observability Platform offer robust integration for tracking these metrics, providing pre-built dashboards that highlight transaction times, visitor counts, and database performance. OpenTelemetry serves as an open-source alternative, allowing users to standardize data collection across their applications. Effective monitoring reveals both user-facing and backend performance insights. Frontend monitoring helps identify loading times and user experience bottlenecks, while backend analysis focuses on transaction times, database efficiency, and performance of WordPress hooks. Additionally, tracking business metrics such as visitor trends and content performance ties technical insights directly to business objectives. This targeted approach allows site owners to pinpoint issues and optimize performance effectively.