Web Page Test - Beyond the Basics

1. Web Page Test - Beyond the Basics @aaronpeters & @andydavies Velocity Europe Oct 2012 http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/jlakliche/2305075743Thursday, 4 October 2012

2. http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/capcase/4970062156Thursday, 4 October 2012

3. New stuff in the UI… http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/wlodi/3085152649Thursday, 4 October 2012

4. Homepage > Advanced tabThursday, 4 October 2012

5. Disable JavaScript Is JS indeed the big performance culprit? Remove the JS from the page - no JS is loaded, parsed or executed Works very well!Thursday, 4 October 2012

6. Disable Compatibility View IE only: Does the page load/render faster in Standards mode? <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />Thursday, 4 October 2012

7. Capture Network Log (Chrome) Returns big TXT ﬁle with JSON … then what? “You probably dont want to use the network log - it was added for the Chrome team themselves to debug the browser :-)” Pat MeenanThursday, 4 October 2012

8. Minimum test duration Make sure things that happen after onload are captured It works… kindof… Entered 45, test ran for 35 seconds!Thursday, 4 October 2012

9. What happens when one of the UK’s largest ISPs has “routing problems”? http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/alexmartin81/4548775140Thursday, 4 October 2012

10. “Virgin Media Broadband ISP Users Affected by Website Routing Woes” ISP Review, May 26, 2012 Customer jcmm33 said: “Same issue here as well, been like this all day. Sites like autotrader.co.uk don’t appear to be accessible, others like the telegraph.co.uk are waiting on other components to download (content from sites like cg-global.maxymiser.com, pixel.quantserve.com).” http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2012/05/uk-virgin-media-broadband-isp-users-affected-by-website-routing-woes.htmlThursday, 4 October 2012

11. ‘Blackhole’ Third-Party RequestsThursday, 4 October 2012

12. Impact on The Telegraph… cg-global.maxymiser.com unreachable http://bit.ly/Ncy7RdThursday, 4 October 2012

13. The Problem Script _t._d.write(px ? <img id=" + id + " src=" + uri + "/> : <scr + ipt id=" + id + " type=" + tp + " charset="utf-8" src=" + uri + "></ scr + ipt>) http://s.telegraph.co.uk/maxymiser/production/js/mmcore.jsThursday, 4 October 2012

14. How much time do all those third-party components add? http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/kindoﬁndie/4099768084Thursday, 4 October 2012

15. Specify Requests to be BlockedThursday, 4 October 2012

16. Is it quicker?Thursday, 4 October 2012

17. First View (65 requests removed) 6 4.5 3 1.5 0 Load Time First Byte Start Render Doc Complete Fully Loaded Third-Party Requests Removed NormalThursday, 4 October 2012

18. Repeat View (54 requests removed) 6 4.5 3 1.5 0 Load Time First Byte Start Render Doc Complete Fully Loaded Third-Party Requests Removed NormalThursday, 4 October 2012

19. But… Numbers may not tell the Whole StoryThursday, 4 October 2012

20. Scripting http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/symphoney/76513801Thursday, 4 October 2012

21. Lots of possibilities! Great for simulating user-page interaction, multi-page testing and different conditions Navigation/DOM interaction submitForm End Conditions setDOMelement Request Manipulation setDNS Misc combineSteps https://sites.google.com/a/webpagetest.org/docs/using-webpagetest/scriptingThursday, 4 October 2012

22. Commands you’ll love navigate Navigate to next page, wait for it to complete logData Set to 0 to not record anything; 1 = record! setValue Sets value attribute of given DOM element to provided value. submitForm Triggers a submit event for the identified form. setDOMElement Sets attribute of a DOM element that is required for the next event to complete successfully. block Blocks individual requests from loading combineSteps Causes multiple script steps to be combined into a single "step" in the results setViewportSize Changes size of visible browser window setDNS Allows for overriding the IP address for a host name.Thursday, 4 October 2012

23. Logging in 1. Go to login page 2. Enter credentials in a web form 3. Submit the form Time how long the process takesThursday, 4 October 2012

24. The WPT Script combineSteps navigate https://zakelijk.vodafone.nl setValue name=username xxxxxxxxxxxx setValue name=password xxxxxxxxxxxx submitForm name=loginThursday, 4 October 2012

25. ResultThursday, 4 October 2012

26. How to set the value of a <select> ? Cant use setValue Solution: do it with exec or execAndWait (Chrome & Firefox only) But: unusual waterfalls navigate http://www.turbobytes.com/signup/ setValue name=name John setValue name=email Allspaw setValue name=url http://etsy.com exec document.getElementById(“plan”).value = “Pro”; submitForm name=contactFormCdnThursday, 4 October 2012

27. SetDOMElement (IE only) How long does it take for the element to appear? setDOMElement id=MyVodafone navigate http://www.vodafone.nlThursday, 4 October 2012

28. Responsive design / media queries Do those media queries work as expected? Case: loading two font ﬁles only on iPad/desktop setViewportSize 480 800 navigate http://www.turbobytes.com/products/optimizer/ setViewportSize 800 800 navigate http://www.turbobytes.com/products/optimizer/Thursday, 4 October 2012

29. Perf impact of font ﬁles is ... Chrome 800px 1.19 sec Chrome 480px 1.13 sec iPhone iOS 5.1 480px 1.28 sec * * wiﬁ, not DSLThursday, 4 October 2012

30. Why did the test fail? Can be very hard to troubleshoot, especially for large scripts!Thursday, 4 October 2012

31. Look ma, there’s an API! http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/ianus/121448487Thursday, 4 October 2012

32. Getting started… 1. Submit request via POST or GET 2. Poll for the test status (or use pingback) 3. Fetch test results 4. Fetch objects (charts, screenshots, ...) Want to use a public instance? Need an API key Tests will have low priorityThursday, 4 October 2012

33. Create a Test …/runtest.php?f=xml& location=Europe& url=http://news.bbc.co.uk& k=myprivatekey https://sites.google.com/a/webpagetest.org/docs/advanced-features/webpagetest-restful-apisThursday, 4 October 2012

34. Create a Test - Response <response> <script/> <statusCode>200</statusCode> <statusText>Ok</statusText> <data> <testId>120928_0_G</testId> <ownerKey>4fa9bc3fdf1a54ba082a00b2a035879c231a5a1b</ownerKey> <xmlUrl>http://velocity.webpagetest.org/xmlResult/120928_0_G/</ xmlUrl> <userUrl>http://velocity.webpagetest.org/result/120928_0_G/</ userUrl> <summaryCSV>http://velocity.webpagetest.org/result/120928_0_G/ page_data.csv</summaryCSV> <detailCSV>http://velocity.webpagetest.org/result/120928_0_G/ requests.csv</detailCSV> </data> </response>Thursday, 4 October 2012

35. Available Locations /getLocations.php Idle Total Being High Location P1 P2 … P8 P9 Testers Tests Tested Priority Europe_wptdriver:Chrome 2 0 0 0 0 0 … 0 0 Europe_wptdriver:Firefox 2 0 0 0 0 0 … 0 0 Europe 2 0 0 0 0 0 … 0 0Thursday, 4 October 2012

36. Check Test Status …/testStatus.php?f=xml& test=test_idThursday, 4 October 2012

37. Check Test Status - Response <response> <script/> <statusCode>101</statusCode> <statusText>Test Pending</statusText> <data> <statusCode>101</statusCode> <statusText>Test Pending</statusText> <testId>120928_0_G</testId> <runs>1</runs> <fvonly>0</fvonly> <location>Europe</location> </data> </response>Thursday, 4 October 2012

38. Get the Results …/xmlResult/test_id/ <response> <script/> <statusCode>200</statusCode> <statusText>Ok</statusText> <data> <testId>120928_0_J</testId> <summary>http://velocity.webpagetest.org/result/120928_0_J/</summa <testUrl>http://news.bbc.co.uk</testUrl> <location>Europe</location> <connectivity>DSL</connectivity> <bwDown>1500</bwDown> <bwUp>384</bwUp> …Thursday, 4 October 2012

39. So what can we build with the API? http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/13965522@N00/3922937189Thursday, 4 October 2012

40. Track how the web is built…Thursday, 4 October 2012

41. Synthetic Monitoring wptmonitor.orgThursday, 4 October 2012

42. With WaterfallsThursday, 4 October 2012

43. Continuous IntegrationThursday, 4 October 2012

44. Be a Web Page Test Hero! http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/brianauer/2197218356Thursday, 4 October 2012

45. Aaron: Andy: @aaronpeters @andydavies aaron@turbobytes.com andy@asteno.com http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/auntiep/5024494612Thursday, 4 October 2012

46. ‘Hidden’ API Gems http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/mariannedewit/3673379501Thursday, 4 October 2012

47. Email when test completes &notify=theboss@whitehouse.orgThursday, 4 October 2012

48. Level of compression in images and video &iq=90 Specify jpeg compression level (30-10095) for screen shots and video captureThursday, 4 October 2012

49. Full resolution screenshots &pngss=1 1 = save a full-resolution version of fully loaded screen shot as a pngThursday, 4 October 2012

50. JSON &f=json By default you get XML, but its a JSON world nowadays, right?! Can’t get full results in JSON yet, but it’s promised!Thursday, 4 October 2012

51. console.log() outputThursday, 4 October 2012

52. Time to <title> Not in UI, but ís in results from API: <titleTime> Can also be found in “Raw Page data” CSVThursday, 4 October 2012