Surely there are a whole variety of browser internal events that may have never hitherto been exposed to page content, that we can get browser companies to allow us to use. It shouldn't be too ha...
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Hmm, no way to edit my comment. above. The PS should be at the very end for the whole comment to read properly.
https://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2013/05/13/moving-beyond-window-onload/#comment-60114
So do all those third party scripts really slow a site down? After looking at my site recently I was horrified to discover that third party services like Outbrain, Disqus and Share this were addi...
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Hi The way I look at this is the best way to over come such a complex task as determining when a site is ready to use, as far as real humans are concerned, is to use those users and their brains ...
https://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2013/05/13/moving-beyond-window-onload/#comment-60088
Steve, Kudos for taking initiative on this. Something worth mentioning for the masses is that you already have page load screenshots on HTTP Archive for those who want to start going down the ima...
https://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2013/05/13/moving-beyond-window-onload/#comment-60082
Steve, Nothing is perfect (therefore everything comes with some type of imperfection). Asking which metric is like asking which statistical calculation (Arithmetic Mean versus Geometric Mean vers...
https://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2013/05/13/moving-beyond-window-onload/#comment-60081
It's worth noting that vendors are avid followers of your work. Keynote has added additional metrics to their product to give approximate timings for user experience: http://www.keynote.com/mykey...
https://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2013/05/13/moving-beyond-window-onload/#comment-60079
Well said! This is the problem with virtually every metric. We want "making our websites faster for users". But it's hard to define, and hard to measure. So we settle for something that is easier...
https://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2013/05/13/moving-beyond-window-onload/#comment-60078
I have had to address this problem for a purely practical reason: test automation is very hard if you can't figure out when the page is done. To test a page, Selenium has to click on elements. If...
https://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2013/05/13/moving-beyond-window-onload/#comment-60077
Steve - I think everyone agrees that "onload" metric is not sufficient. It is useful in some cases and completely useless in other cases. However, it is the one metric you can accurately measure ...
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