*Summary* I propose to add a new page load time performance test suite that loads pages on archive.org.
*Problem* Google's page cycler and Apple's PLT test suites are both private due to copyright restrictions, and people outside of these two organizations cannot see the contents. This severely limits the utility and the effectiveness of these test suites because not all contributors can run them locally. We need a publicly distributable version of these two test suites. *Proposal* We can measure the performance metrics on the snapshots of popular websites at a specific date and time on archive.org. Because archive.org will give us the same snapshot each time for given a URL, our test suite only need to store a list of URLs. It eliminates the need for distributing the page contents with the suite and still allows all contributors to obtain the same test page when running the test suite. In order to avoid DoS'ing archive.org, we can use web-page-replay: http://code.google.com/p/web-page-replay/ to create persistent cache. Credit for this novel idea: Greg Simon. I have posted a work in progress patch on https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84008. In addition, I have notified the Internet Archive of the proposed plan on April 12th but I haven't received any responses yet. Best, Ryosuke Niwa Software Engineer Google Inc.
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