Category Archives: Eideticker

Eideticker with less eideticker

Posted on April 24, 2012 by William Lachance

[ For more information on the Eideticker software I'm referring to, see this entry ] tl;dr: You can now run the standard eideticker benchmarks easily on any Android phone without any kind of specialized hardware. So Eideticker is pretty great … Continue reading →

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Yet more adventures in mobile performance analysis

Posted on April 5, 2012 by William Lachance

[ For more information on the Eideticker software I'm referring to, see this entry ] Participated in an interesting meeting on checkerboarding in Firefox for Android yesterday. As a reminder, checkerboarding refers to the amount of time you spend waiting … Continue reading →

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Eideticker dashboard update

Posted on March 22, 2012 by William Lachance

[ For more information on the Eideticker software I'm referring to, see this entry ] Since my first Eideticker dashboard post was so well received, I thought I’d give a quick update on another metric that I just brought online: … Continue reading →

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Announcing the Eideticker mobile performance dashboard

Posted on March 16, 2012 by William Lachance

Over the last while, Clint Talbert and I have been working on setting up automatic mobile performance tests using Eideticker (a framework to measure perceived Firefox performance by video capturing automated browser interactions: for more information, see my earlier post). … Continue reading →

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Yet more checkerboarding analysis

Posted on January 25, 2012 by William Lachance

I’ve been spending a bit more time on refining the checkerboarding tests in Eideticker that I talked about last time. Most of my work has been focused on making the results as representative of a real world scenario as possible, … Continue reading →

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Measuring reduced checkerboarding in mobile Fennec

Posted on January 3, 2012 by William Lachance

After my post on measuring checkerboarding in mobile Firefox, Clint Talbert (my fearless manager) suggested I run a before and after test to measure the improvement that just landed as part of bug 709512. After a bit of cleanup, I … Continue reading →

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