Hello,

My 2 cents:

Tracking scrolling issues (jank) down is not easily done and in that case
the API "seems" that it might actually help you quantify the performance
gains/losses from making the scrolling experience smoother across your user
base (just an example). Still, it seems a pretty low level API cause it's
not going to point you to the culprit component when problems arise rather
it's just reporting on how you are doing fps-wise.


>How beneficial this would be to improving our ability to research user
performance.
In the case of rendering at wikipedia-like-projects...well, I do not see it
will have much effect, our main rendering case is real simple: text (in big
amounts)+pictures (in small amounts). Then (correct me if I am wrong) our
performance issues for readers probably come mostly from page load/image
resolution/image downloads and none of these affect the frame rate.


On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 4:19 AM, Timo Tijhof <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> Navigation Timing API[1] is getting critical mass[2], and we've been
> using[3] it for a while now to gather network information. The timeline one
> would generate in Chrome Dev Tools, shows this information. But with this
> API one can measure it out in the wild.
>
> The specification process with W3C has now begun on the <s>Web Smoothness
> API</s> Frame Timing API (initiated by Google). This will provide similar
> abilities for other important part in perceived front-end performance:
> Rendering.
>
> Curious what our thoughts are. How beneficial this would be to improving
> our ability to research user performance. If others have started looking
> into this.
>
> Quick introduction from the HTTP 203 podcast:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zoC3eaa9z0#t=1m10s
>
> Call to action:
> http://updates.html5rocks.com/2014/11/frame-timing-api
>
> Specification and polyfil
> http://www.w3.org/TR/frame-timing/
> https://github.com/w3c/frame-timing
> https://github.com/GoogleChrome/frame-timing-polyfill
>
> — Timo
>
> [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Navigation_timing
> http://kaaes.github.io/timing/
> [2] http://caniuse.com/#feat=nav-timing
> [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NavigationTiming
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