Releases: catchpoint/WebPageTest
Releases · catchpoint/WebPageTest
WebPageTest 18.09
September 2018 Release snapshot
WebPageTest 18.08
August 2018 Release snapshot
WebPageTest 17.12
Changes from WebPageTest 17.08:
WebPageTest and wptagent now have "release" branches in github that will be updated any time a new release is made (making it easy to git clone/pull a stable release build).
Web UI
- Added Lighthouse scores to the top-level grades
- Added video as a distinct content type (waterfall, breakdown)
- Expanded the filmstrip UI and admin pages to full screen width
- Fixes for multi-step test support
- Video rendering
- HAR export
- Added reporting of agent uptime
- Fixes to EC2 agent auto-scaling logic
- Improvements in "Time to Interactive" measurement
Agent (wptagent)
- Added support for Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer (full support except for header modification on IE)
- Added support for testing Opera (full support on desktop and android, behaves like Chrome)
- Fixes for testing Chrome 63
- Fixes for testing Firefox 57
- Fixed User agent overriding in Chrome and Firefox
- Improvements to reliability of Lighthouse testing and error reporting
- Fixed setviewportsize and setuseragent script commands
- Added support for using vpn-reverse-tether for revers-tethering android devices (up through 6.0 for now)
- Improvements to the optimization check processing (faster processing, improved CDN detection)
wptdriver (Legacy Desktop Testing)
wptdriver is deprecated and in mid-2018 will no longer be able to test Chrome. All testing should migrate to using wptagent.
WebPageTest 17.08
Releases are moving to a YY.MM numbering scheme and will (hopefully) be released quarterly.
Changes from WebPageTest 3.0:
With close to a year of commits there are a LOT of bug fixes, support for updated browsers, etc. This will just cover the main feature changes.
The biggest change by far is a new cross-platform agent (wptagent) that supports Linux, Windows, Mac and Android testing. Eventually wptdriver will be deprecated and all testing will be moved to the new agent.
Web UI
- Added display for browser main-thread blocking to the waterfall and Time to Interactive metrics (Chrome)
- Added per-request JavaScript execution times to the waterfall (Chrome)
- Added reporting of uncompressed resource sizes (JavaScript and CSS in particular)
Agents
- Added support for running Lighthouse tests as part of wptagent (on both mobile and desktop agents)
- Added collection of First Contentful and First Meaningful paint timings (Chrome)
JS (Mobile testing - legacy)
- The JS agent has been discontinued in favor of wptagent (and the public instance has been running the new code exclusively for several months).
wptdriver (Legacy Desktop Testing)
- Added collection of Time to interactive and interactivity metrics
- Switched how SSL Hooking is done in order to support Chrome 61+
- Added support for new Firefox extension model (required for multi-process Firefox)
WebPageTest 3.0
Changes from WebPageTest 2.19:
With a year of commits there are a LOT of bug fixes, support for updated browsers, etc. This will just cover the main feature changes.
- Video, Chrome Trace and tcpdump processing has been pused to the agents and is no longer done on the server (for better scaling).
Web UI
- Added support for PHP 7
- The UI now supports reporting the output of multiple steps for multi-step scripts (huge thanks the the massive amount of work that sburnicki put in on ot).
- JS Parse and Execution time is displayed in the waterfall on a per-request basis when Chrome timelines are captured.
- The times when the main thread is blocked/interactive is displayed below the waterfall when Chrome timelines are captured.
- When tcpdump is captured with a test the bandwidth display in the waterfall will be calculated from the packet capture and will also display spurious retransmits (duplicated data).
- There are several new settings but two in particular that you should consider changing on your existing install if you are doing an update:
- Switch the waterfalls to the new scheme where they are colored by mime type:
- mime_waterfalls=1
- Enable auto-update of the test agents as new ones are rolled out to the public instance:
- agentUpdate=http://cdn.webpagetest.org/
- Switch the waterfalls to the new scheme where they are colored by mime type:
Test Agent
- URLBlast support (Testing IE <= 8) has discontinued and is no longer included in the releases. Existing installs will continue to work but there will be no more updates.
- Windows Safari support has been discontinued. It was last updated at Safari 5 which is ancient and unused at this point.
JS (Mobile testing)
- The mobile agent is now stable and should work reliably (more reliably for Android than iOS testing though)
- Limited support for testing several browsers as "black-box" browsers (visual metrics but no waterfalls)
- UC Mini
- Opera Mini
- Opera
- Samsung Browser
wptdriver (Desktop Testing:
- Added support for testing Microsoft Edge.
- Added Windows 10 support and now requires Windows 7 at a minimum.
- New traffic-shaping driver (winshaper) is now used for Windows 8.1 or later.
- Added support for testing 64-bit versions of Chrome and Firefox.
- Added support for decoding TLS streams for Chrome so response bodies and optimization checks now work.
- Added support for decoding and reporting HTTP/2
- Added support for decoding Brotli compression
- Improved the image optimization check to look for bloat in PNGs and any non-animated GIFs that should be PNGs.
WebPageTest 2.19
Changes from WebPageTest 2.18:
Web Server
- Added support for emulating arbitrary mobile devices (Chrome)
- Updated embedded Chrome Dev Tools and Tracing UI
- Added support for reporting user timing measures(API only)
- Fixed target TTFB logic/grading
- Added reporting of the agent Windows version in getTesters.php to prepare for Chrome deprecating < Windows 7 (6.1 actual version)
- Updated EC2 AMI ID's to new/refreshed 2016 versions of the AMI's
- Added support for per-connectivity or per-location test timeout settings
Test Agent
js (Mobile testing)
- Improved iOS testing with 60fps video capture, tcpdump, feature compatible with Android testing
- Changed test end conditions to match desktop (at onload or after 2 seconds of inactivity after onload)
- Added support for testing Chrome on Android Marshmallow
- Improved reliability
- Updated to support Node JS 4+
- Error test if Chrome crashed during testing
- Added support for collecting user timing measures
- Added support for the setDns script command
wptdriver:
- Updated to support latest Chrome and Firefox releases
- Added HTTP/2 decode support for Firefox and IE 11 (including server push)
- Support talking HTTPS to WebPageTest server (including client certificates if configured)
- Reduced overhead when testing Chrome
- Added support for emulating arbitrary mobile devices (Chrome)
- Fixed mobile emulation viewport size to match actual device
- Block automatic browser downloads
- Added support for collecting user timing measures
- Added reporting of the current Windows version to prepare for Chrome deprecating < Windows 7 (6.1 actual version)
URLBlast (legacy IE testing):
- No significant changes (deprecated - use wptdriver where possible).
WebPageTest 2.18
Changes from WebPageTest 2.17:
Web Server
- Fixed a critical remote code execution vulnerability (linux servers)
Test Agent
js (Mobile testing)
- Added support for processing video captures on the node JS agent system instead of the server
- Added support for custom metrics (JS that executes after the test completes)
- Added reporting of user timing marks
- Added reporting of navigation timing
- Added support for the "ignore certificate errors" option
wptdriver:
- Added support for decoding HTTP/2 for Firefox and IE (including server push)
- Added support for capturing the SSL Key log file when running a tcpdump capture (Chrome and Firefox only)
- Switched to mozjpeg for the jpeg compression check and for saved images (screen shots and video frames)
- Fixed support for the setEventName script command
URLBlast (legacy IE testing):
- No significant changes (deprecated - use wptdriver where possible).
WebPageTest 2.17
Changes from WebPagetest 2.16:
Web Server
- Added custom metrics to the result page
- Added (optional) rate limiting for video rendering based on server load
- Added support for connectivity-specific test timeout limits
- Added support for newer versions of ffmpeg
- Improved performance of mobile video processing
- Improved EC2 auto-scaling
Test Agent
js (Mobile testing)
- Added support for ignoring certificate errors
- SPOF, Content blocking and setDNS support added
- Added support for Chrome Dev Channel on Android
- Added support for running custom chrome_shell builds on Android
- Allow android tests to run for longer than 3 minutes with truncated video
- Fixed support for Android Lollipop
- Fixed packet loss support in traffic shaping
- Fixed Chrome timeline capture and reporting (Chrome 42+)
- Improved mobile agent reliability (particularly on Windows)
wptdriver:
- Fixed support for setUserAgent for Chrome HTTPS requests
- Added support for eventName script command
- Added support for using HTTP basic auth over HTTPS between the agents and server
- Improved chrome mobile emulation (disable flash)
- Fixed packet loss support in traffic shaping
- Improvements to Chrome HTTPS waterfall processing
- Fixed Chrome timeline capture and reporting (Chrome 42+)
- Added support for calculating speed index without video capture
- Disabled the Firefox "browser upgraded" startup page
URLBlast (legacy IE testing):
- No significant changes (deprecated - use wptdriver where possible).
WebPageTest 2.16
Changes from WebPagetest 2.15:
There are quite a few big additions/improvements in this release:
- Added support for an easy-deploy server running on EC2.
- Mobile agent now (correctly) closes the browser between first and repeat view to match the desktop behavior.
- Moved to server-side video rendering.
- StatsD integration.
Web Server
- Moved to server-side video rendering.
- Significantly improved video layouts.
- Support for 60fps mobile videos.
- Supports huge numbers of tests (up to 150 in the same video was tested)
- Eliminated dependency on the specific version of ffmpeg for processing mobile video (now works with 1.x and 2.x).
- Several additions to the install check:
- Added the version of the running release.
- Added a check for freetype (needed for server-side video rendering).
- Added "error rate" reporting to the getTesters.php view.
- Significantly improved the performance of the test history view if running on Linux.
- Removed the Progressive JPEG recommendation (currently controversial).
- Added support for an easy-deploy server running on EC2.
- Added support for automatically launching EC2 test agents.
- Added support for automatically pulling the latest agent updates from the public WebPageTest instance.
- Improved performance of the post-processing of mobile tests.
- Added support for sharded WebPageTest servers (server ID as part of the test ID)
- Added support for posting results to StatsD.
- Integrated with Google Safe Browsing API for filtering of test requests (optional).
- Added a hybrid work queue where beanstalkd can be used for API tests but the legacy mode (with test position) can be used for interactive tests.
Test Agent
js (Mobile testing)
- Added support for reporting the DOM Content Loaded time
- Agent now (correctly) closes the browser between first and repeat view to match the desktop behavior.
wptdriver:
- Fixes to processing of Chrome requests (HTTPS in particular)
- Fixed the Chrome mobile emulation
- Fixed video capture dor latest Chrome releases
URLBlast (legacy IE testing):
- No significant changes (will eventually be deprecated and replaced by wptdriver).
Improvements common to both desktop agents:
- Improved IE testing thruput (eliminated 5 second delay when running tests).
WebPagetest 2.15
Changes from WebPagetest 2.14:
There are quite a few big additions/improvements in this release:
- The addition of custom metrics.
- Logs integration for test results.
- Significant improvements to the new mobile agents.
- The mobitest android agents are no longer supported (security concerns with the results processing).
- Added support for capturing and viewing Chrome traces.
Web Server
- Added support for writing test results to a log file (see logTestResults and logTestRequests in settings.ini.sample)
- Significant improvements to the processing of mobile video captures.
- Fixed the display of console log messages from mobile tests.
- Fixed the waterfall translucency slider support in filmstrip view for Chrome 30+.
- Improved test reliability (reduced instances of corrupt results).
- Added sample benchmark configurations.
- Fixed timeline processing for Chrome 36+.
- Added support for viewing Chrome traces.
- Added installer checks for php's memory limit, for tmp being on tmpfs and for being able to write to the dat directory.
Test Agent
js (Mobile testing)
- Significant improvements to video and waterfall processing (done on the server but mobile-specific).
- Changed the logic to close the browser between first and repeat view to match desktop testing.
- Added support for running against an emulator (though it is very much not recommended for anything but dev).
wptdriver:
- Added support for capturing Chrome traces.
- Fixed support for multi-step tests.
- Fixed the reporting of HTTPS 204 responses.
- Added support for overrideHost, setHeader and addHeader commands for IE HTTPS testing.
- Improved the support for the exec and execAndWait commands in Chrome so they no longer run in a sandbox and can access the page variables.
- Added support for capturing the page title and titleTime for Chrome (already worked for IE and Firefox).
URLBlast (legacy IE testing):
- No significant changes (will eventually be deprecated and replaced by wptdriver).
Improvements common to both desktop agents:
- Added support for capturing custom metrics.
- Improved the adult site detection logic.
- Changed 401 response codes (auth challenge) to be treated like redirects.