[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 84008] New: Add public page loading performance tests using web-page-replay

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84008

           Summary: Add public page loading performance tests using
                    web-page-replay
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
          Platform: Unspecified
        OS/Version: Unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Tools / Tests
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: rniwa at webkit.org
                CC: eric at webkit.org, koivisto at iki.fi, abarth at webkit.org,
                    kling at webkit.org, morrita at google.com,
                    gregsimon at chromium.org


Google's page cycler and Apple's PLT test suites are both private due to copyright law restrictions, and people outside of these two organizations cannot see the contents. This severely limits the utility and the effectiveness of these test suites because not all contributors can run them locally.

We should add a publicly distributable version of these two test suites that tests page loading time of real websites. The idea here is to load pages out of archive.org. Because archive.org provides a content snapshot at a specific time, we can always pull the same data by simply specifying the URL, eliminating the need for distributing the page contents with the test suite but still allowing all contributors to obtain the same page test data when running the tests. Credit: Greg Simon for this clever idea.

In order to avoid DoS'ing archive.org, we can use web-page-replay: http://code.google.com/p/web-page-replay/ to cache data locally and make any other necessary modifications to the page for the purpose of performance tests.

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