The Truth About Your Web App's Performance

From JSConf US 2014, where I announced the release of Surf-N-Perf, our micro-library for gathering web page performance data (https://github.com/Comcast/Surf-N-Perf)

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1. The Truth About Your
 Web App’s Performance John Riviello - @JohnRiv JSConf - May 28, 2014
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3. Frontend Performance Data 1.  What do existing tools provide? 2.  What data do you care about? 3.  How do you gather that data? 4.  What do you do with the data? John Riviello – The Truth Behind Your Web App’s Performance 3
4. 1. Existing Tools 2. The Data You Care About 3. Gathering the Data 4. Analyzing the Data
5. Frontend Performance Data – Existing Tools WebPagetest.org John Riviello – The Truth Behind Your Web App’s Performance 5
11. Frontend Performance Data – Existing Tools http://macbre.github.io/phantomas/ https://github.com/gmetais/grunt-devperf John Riviello – The Truth Behind Your Web App’s Performance 11
13. "RUM" (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tom-b/1330310701/) by Tom B (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tom-b/) is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
14. Real User Monitoring "yes, that's a rum filled coconut." (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bking/346334125) by Brandon King (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bking/) is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/) / Color adjusted from original
15. Frontend Performance Data – Existing Tools http://newrelic.com/ John Riviello – The Truth Behind Your Web App’s Performance 15
16. http://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-browser/page-load-timing-process
17. http://blog.newrelic.com/2014/03/13/javascript-error-reporting-ajax-timing-new-relic/
18. http://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-browser/ajax-dashboard
19. http://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-browser/manually-reporting-page-load-timing-data
20. 1. Existing Tools 2. The Data You Care About 3. Gathering the Data 4. Analyzing the Data
21. Real User Monitoring "yes, that's a rum filled coconut." (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bking/346334125) by Brandon King (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bking/) is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/) / Color adjusted from original
24. Illustration from http://www.w3.org/TR/navigation-timing/#processing-model John Riviello – The Truth Behind Your Web App’s Performance 24
25. Illustration from http://www.w3.org/TR/navigation-timing/#processing-model John Riviello – The Truth Behind Your Web App’s Performance 25
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29. Frontend Performance Data – The Data You Care About John Riviello – The Truth Behind Your Web App’s Performance 29
30. Frontend Performance Data – The Data You Care About Example Factors That Impact Performance: John Riviello – The Truth Behind Your Web App’s Performance 30 •  User authentication state • “Type” of user •  Number of “items” returned •  SWF dependency
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32. http://mashable.com/2014/01/31/gmail-slow/ John Riviello – The Truth Behind Your Web App’s Performance 32 “Gmail’s People Widget appears to be the cause of the sluggishness, which is, only affecting Gmail on the web Google says… This is noticeable when users open an email conversation with a large number of participants…”
33. Consider what other unique factors in your app may impact performance
34. 1. Existing Tools 2. The Data You Care About 3. Gathering the Data 4. Analyzing the Data
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36. Frontend Performance Data – Gathering the Data Marking Timestamps John Riviello – The Truth Behind Your Web App’s Performance 36 Back in the day: >  new  Date().getTime();        1399754123456   ECMAScript 5.1: >  Date.now();        1399754123456   Most modern browsers have a better option…      
38. Frontend Performance Data – Gathering the Data W3C High Resolution Time John Riviello – The Truth Behind Your Web App’s Performance 38 • DOMHighResTimeStamp is available via window.performance.now() • Provides the time with sub-millisecond accuracy • Measured relative to the navigationStart attribute of the PerformanceTiming interface • Not subject to system clock skew or adjustments (uses a monotonically increasing clock)
39. Frontend Performance Data – Gathering the Data W3C High Resolution Time – Sub-ms Example John Riviello – The Truth Behind Your Web App’s Performance 39 >  var  dateTest  =  function()  {              var  start  =  Date.now(),                      area  =  window.innerWidth*window.innerHeight;              return  Date.now()  -­‐  start;      };      dateTest();      0     >  var  highResTest  =  function()  {              var  start  =  window.performance.now(),                      area  =  window.innerWidth*window.innerHeight;              return  window.performance.now()  -­‐  start;      };      highResTest();      0.01200000406242907  
40. Frontend Performance Data – Gathering the Data W3C High Resolution Time – Monotonic Clock John Riviello – The Truth Behind Your Web App’s Performance 40 Why do we care? “Most systems run a daemon which regularly synchronizes the time. It is common for the clock to be tweaked a few milliseconds every 15-20 minutes. At that rate about 1% of 10 second intervals measured would be inaccurate.” Source: Tony Gentilcore http://gent.ilcore.com/2012/06/better-timer-for-javascript.html
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45. Browser Support
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51. https://github.com/Comcast/Surf-N-Perf
52. 1. Existing Tools 2. The Data You Care About 3. Gathering the Data 4. Analyzing the Data
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54. Average Response Times are for Average Products
55. 99th PERCENTILE (at a minimum)
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65. Recap
66. Frontend Performance Data – Recap John Riviello – The Truth Behind Your Web App’s Performance 66 • Measure first—at the 99th percentile • Log Network Latency, Processing Time, and Full Webpage Request • Log major app-specific events with details • Leverage W3C Performance APIs For Further Info: Twitter: @JohnRiv GitHub: https://github.com/Comcast/Surf-N-Perf