Sorry not sure I quite understand your comment here.
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Stefan Seifert <n...@detonation.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Donnerstag, 23. Juni 2016 08:41:33 CEST Ben Maurer wrote: > > > Just wanted to share some thoughts here based on our measurement > experience > > at Facebook. While the FirstPaint and FirstContentfulPaint events are > > interesting I don't think these reflect the actual loading times of > > non-trivial applications. Many sites load their content incrementally and > > these statistics are unlikely to capture just the right subset of > content. > > I guess attaching timing information to DOM nodes like time from start of > page > load until this node was first (partially) painted would by itself create > performance issues? If not, that could leave the choice of the "right" > subset The timing info is attaching to the window and not to individual DOM nodes. As such there is no performance concern for exposing the suggested first paint metrics. > of the content to the developer. > Sorry, I'm confused. Are you suggesting having the developer indicate the "right" subset of the content for the case of "First Meaningful Paint" ? Or something else ? > Stefan >