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When we built boomerang at Yahoo!, we planned on it being a generic beaconing system with different payloads attached by plugins. We published an API, and wrote plugins to measure page roundtrip time, network throughput and latency. We received other plugins from Yahoo! to measure IPv6 and DNS latency, and then nothing happened... Until one day, a certain Mr. Brewer submitted a NavTiming plugin. As it turns out, people were using boomerang in-house, and creating their own plugins that were never published. In this talk, we’ll go over the basics of writing a boomerang plugin to measure anything you need, some best practices involved with writing plugins, and examples of third party plugins that others have written.
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Extending Boomerang
Philip Tellis / [email protected]
HTML5 Dev Conf / 2013-04-02
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• Philip Tellis• @bluesmoon• [email protected]• performance / security• javascript
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I really like to study performance on the web
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Jean-Antoine Nollet – 1746
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Measure real user to get the real picture
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Real Users
• Get delighted• Get frustrated• Have credit cards• ... that they are attached to• Form an impression from experience
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Real Users
• Get delighted• Get frustrated• Have credit cards• ... that they are attached to• Form an impression from experience
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Real Users
• Get delighted• Get frustrated• Have credit cards• ... that they are attached to• Form an impression from experience
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Real Users
• Get delighted• Get frustrated• Have credit cards• ... that they are attached to• Form an impression from experience
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Real Users
• Get delighted• Get frustrated• Have credit cards• ... that they are attached to• Form an impression from experience
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Real User Measurement–
github.com/lognormal/boomerang
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Anything that the user does!
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NavTiming – W3C Candidate Recommendation
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Browser Support for NavTiming – April 2013
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Real Users don’t always use ideal browsers
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So there’s a lot of magic to support the other 33.2%
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boomerang
• BSD licensed• Measure load time, bandwidth, latency• DNS lookup time, NavTiming, Connection Type• Page Parameters• And anything else you can write a plugin for
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And it beacons all of this back to a predefined URL
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boomerang is only a beaconing system, functionalityis added with plugins
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Get the code from github
https://github.com/bluesmoon/boomerang-sample-plugin
• branches are steps• commit logs are explanations
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It’s actually in Nederland
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How does bandwidth change around the world?
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What does a website’s performance distribution looklike?
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That’s my Blog (please visit)
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Did you know that IE7 seems to be faster than IE8?
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But that’s mostly IE9 users browsing in IE7compatibility mode.
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Did you know that users bounce if a page is toofast?
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But that’s mostly because error pages are the fastest.
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Did you know that user patience wrt performance isa cultural thing?
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It’s tied both to where a user is from, and also thetype of service.
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Summary
Measure→ Hypothesize→ Test → Fix← Repeat ←↩
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Sources
• Jean-Antoine Nollet from Wikimedia Commonshttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AJean-Antoine_Nollet.jpg
• Steve Souders by weboo on flickrhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/weboo/2539831515/
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• Philip Tellis• @bluesmoon• [email protected]• www.SOASTA.com• boomerang• LogNormal Blog
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