Eideticker: Limitations in cross-browser performance testing
Last summer I wrote a bit about using Eideticker to measure the relative performance of Firefox for Android versus other browsers (Chrome, stock, etc.). At the time I was pretty optimistic about...
View ArticleActual useful FirefoxOS Eideticker results at last
Another update on getting Eideticker working with FirefoxOS. Once again this is sort of high-level, looking forward to writing something more in-depth soon now that we have the basics working. I...
View ArticleProof of concept Eideticker dashboard for FirefoxOS
[ For more information on the Eideticker software I'm referring to, see this entry ] I just put up a proof of concept Eideticker dashboard for FirefoxOS here. Right now it has two days worth of data,...
View ArticleSimple command-line ntp client for Android and FirefoxOS
Today I did a quick port of Larry Doolittle’s ntpclient program to Android and FirefoxOS. Basically this lets you easily synchronize your device’s time to that of a central server. Yes, there’s lots...
View ArticleFirst Eideticker Responsiveness Tests
[ For more information on the Eideticker software I'm referring to, see this entry ] Time for another update on Eideticker. In the last quarter, I’ve been working on two main items: Responsiveness...
View ArticleAutomatically measuring startup / load time with Eideticker
So we’ve been using Eideticker to automatically measure startup/pageload times for about a year now on Android, and more recently on FirefoxOS as well (albeit not automatically). This gives us nice and...
View ArticleEideticker for FirefoxOS: Becoming more useful
[ For more information on the Eideticker software I'm referring to, see this entry ] Time for a long overdue eideticker-for-firefoxos update. Last time we were here (almost 5 months ago! man time...
View ArticleIt’s all about the entropy
[ For more information on the Eideticker software I'm referring to, see this entry ] So recently I’ve been exploring new and different methods of measuring things that we care about on FirefoxOS — like...
View ArticleEnd of Q2 Eideticker update: Flame tests, future plans
[ For more information on the Eideticker software I'm referring to, see this entry ] Just wanted to give an update on where Eideticker is at the end of Q2 2014. The big news is that we’ve started to...
View ArticleMeasuring frames per second and animation smoothness with Eideticker
[ For more information on the Eideticker software I'm referring to, see this entry ] Just wanted to write up a few notes on using Eideticker to measure animation smoothness, since this is a topic that...
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