- From: Timothy Dresser <tdresser@chromium.org>
- Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2017 15:54:22 +0000
- To: "public-web-perf@w3.org" <public-web-perf@w3.org>, Liquan Gu <maxlg@chromium.org>
- Message-ID: <CAHTsfZDeFZ=NWUe9hjevQu=a2zb3Ba0L13aOA6JH4M4h08uo6w@mail.gmail.com>
During TPAC, a few questions came up regarding how performance.measure is used. - Can we deprecate the use of NavigationTiming timestamps from performance.measure? - This relates to the open spec issue <https://github.com/w3c/user-timing/issues/31> on clarifying what navigation timing entries are allowed, and how their values are used. - Also see discussion on whether we can deprecate use of NavigationTiming entries completely here <https://github.com/w3c/user-timing/issues/26> and here <https://github.com/w3c/user-timing/issues/22>. - Can we pass an object as measure's second parameter without breaking pages? - This relates to the L3 proposal <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hltt8z9C4PaI5Qu1YMIp1wOGdbJPJPoJwBarEeCY6xQ/edit#heading=h.ejti6qhmjv0b> presented at TPAC. There are also some other outstanding issues on the user timing spec which relate to this. - Should performance.measure work with resource timing entries <https://github.com/w3c/user-timing/issues/27>? We've gathered some data on the usage of timestamps from NavigationTiming in performance.measure, and the usage of objects passed into performance.measure. This data is for the last 5 days, aggregated across all platforms, on Chrome's dev channel. We see 0.100% of page views use some timestamp from Navigation Timing. Here are the frequencies of usage of NavigationTiming timestamps, across all pages. This is likely heavily skewed by a small number of pages which use certain timestamps a lot. Performance Measure Start Timestamp unloadEventStart 1.55% domInteractive 3.62% domContentLoadedEventStart 51.76% domContentLoadedEventEnd 0.16% domComplete 0.19% loadEventStart 41.89% loadEventEnd 0.84% Performance Measure End Timestamp unloadEventEnd 0.65% domInteractive 29.55% domContentLoadedEventStart 0.05% domContentLoadedEventEnd 23.20% domComplete 20.29% loadEventStart 4.92% loadEventEnd 21.34% We see no usage at all of objects being passed into performance.measure's second parameter. - Can we deprecate the use of NavigationTiming timestamps from performance.measure? - I think the usage is high enough that we shouldn't deprecate this, but should move the list of acceptable timestamps into UT L2, and clarify the spec regarding how these timestamps behave, as discussed here <https://github.com/w3c/user-timing/issues/31>, here <https://github.com/w3c/user-timing/issues/22> and here <https://github.com/w3c/user-timing/issues/26>. - Can we pass an object as measure's second parameter without breaking pages? - Yes! - Should performance.measure work with resource timing entries? - I think the L3 proposal <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hltt8z9C4PaI5Qu1YMIp1wOGdbJPJPoJwBarEeCY6xQ/edit#heading=h.ejti6qhmjv0b> covers this use case, and we should discourage the use of special timestamps being passed into measure. I propose WontFix'ing the issue <https://github.com/w3c/user-timing/issues/27>. Tim
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