[Hamara-devel] web-development, tests and hamara

[shirish]

Hi all,

Today, after a long time I went to

http://httparchive.org/trends.php?s=All&minlabel=Oct+1+2012&maxlabel=Oct+1+2015#bytesTotal&reqTotal

This gives insight into how web pages are performing today and what's 
happening on the open web today.

See http://httparchive.org/about.php (it is a bit of long page) but has 
many an insight into it.

For e.g. this -

Why are transfer sizes prior to Oct 1 2012 smaller?

The web10 parameter in the WebPagetest API determines whether the test 
should stop at document complete (window.onload) as opposed to later 
once network activity has subsided. Prior to Oct 1 2012 the tests were 
configured to stop at document complete. However, lazy loading resources 
(loading them dynamically after window.onload) has grown in popularity. 
Therefore, this setting was changed so that these post-onload requests 
would be captured. This resulted in more HTTP requests being recorded 
with a subsequent bump in transfer size.

There are many such insights which could be found and used to fine-tune 
both our website as well as understand and do our own internal 
unit-testing using various foss tools.

Also after quite a while, did go at https://html5test.com/index.html

which also looks at how good your browser is at rendering all HTML pieces.

In either way, do find it useful as it tells quite a bit.

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org