I thought it would be interesting to explore how some of the page metrics we use to analyze web performance compare with each other. In the HTTP Archive “pages” table, metrics such as TTFB, renderStart, VisuallyComplete, onLoad and fullyLoaded are tracked. And recently some of the newer metrics such as Time to Interactive, First Meaningful Paint, First Contentful paint, etc exist in the HAR file tables.
One of the exciting new features in Chrome Dev Tools is the addition of 3rd party product names integrated into Dev Tools. I was interested in exploring how this works, and whether any of this data can be used to do further research via the HTTP Archive.
I was curious to see where Server-Timing was implemented on the web, so I started searching the HTTP Archive for sites using it. Interestingly enough, there were no sites in the HTTP Archive that had Server-Timing response headers before 3/1/2017. Since then it’s usage has been gradually increasing each month. As of July 2017, there are 72 sites and 352 HTTP responses containing Server-Timing headers.