Plotting webpage loading speeds and altering webpages and a service based on latency and pixel density

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9740668-B1
Application number	US-201313829803-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Mar 14, 2013
Priority date	Mar 14, 2013
Publication date	Aug 22, 2017
Grant date	Aug 22, 2017

Abstract

Techniques for managing performance information associated with rendering electronic content may be provided. For example, electronic content may be rendered and pixel density information may be plotted on a graph for comparison and/or perceived latency detection. In some examples, electronic content may be monitored during an amount of time. Based at least in part on the monitoring, pixel density information may be collected. The pixel density information may be associated with rendering the electronic content during the amount of time. Further, in some examples, perceived latency information may be determined. The perceived latency information may correspond to the rendering of the electronic content based at least in part on the collected pixel density information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method for managing electronic content rendering performance, comprising:
under control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions,
receiving first pixel density information associated with rendering a first electronic page with a browser application;
generating a first pixel density representation over an amount of time based at least in part on the first pixel density information;
receiving second pixel density information associated with rendering a second electronic page with the browser application;
generating a second pixel density representation over a second amount of time based at least in part on the second pixel density information;
comparing the first pixel density representation and the second pixel density representation, wherein the first pixel density representation and the second pixel density representation take into account a perceived fully-loaded pixel density level, the perceived fully-loaded pixel density level being less than an actual fully-loaded pixel density level associated with the first electronic page or with the second electronic page;
determining, based at least in part on the comparison, a relative perceived latency for the first electronic page with respect to the second electronic page;
modifying the first electronic page based at least in part on the relative perceived latency for the first electronic page and a range of pixel density levels associated with the first electronic page; and
modifying an underlying service with which the first electronic communicates based at least in part on the relative perceived latency for the first electronic page and the range of pixel density levels associated with the first electronic page.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the first pixel density representation includes a first graph of the first pixel density information per unit of time of the amount of time and the second pixel density representation includes a second graph of second pixel density information per unit of time of the second amount of time.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , wherein the pixel density information includes a percentage of total pixels of at least one of the first electronic page or the second electronic page rendered by the browser application.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3 , wherein the comparison includes reviewing the first graph relative to the second graph, and wherein the relative perceived latency is based at least in part on which of the first graph or the second graph reaches a percentage of total pixels rendered earliest during at least one of the amount of time or the second amount of time.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising generating a snapshot that represents an image of the first electronic page being rendered with the browser application at a point in the amount of time.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating a plurality of additional pixel density representations over a plurality of respective amounts of time based at least in part on the first pixel density information;
generating a second plurality of additional pixel density representations over a second plurality of respective amounts of time based at least in part on the second pixel density information; and
generating a scatter plot associated with the plurality of additional pixel density representations and the second plurality of additional pixel density representations, wherein determining the relative perceived latency for the first electronic page with respect to the second electronic page is further based at least in part on comparing points of the scatter plot.

7. A computer-implemented method for managing electronic content rendering performance, comprising:
under control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions,
monitoring electronic content during an amount of time;
collecting, based at least in part on the monitoring, pixel density information associated with rendering the electronic content during the amount of time;
comparing the pixel density information with perceived fully-loaded pixel density level, the perceived fully-loaded pixel density level being less than an actual fully-loaded pixel density level associated with the electronic content;
determining perceived latency information corresponding to the rendering of the electronic content based at least in part on the comparison;
modifying the electronic content based at least in part on the perceived latency information for the rendering of the electronic content and a range of pixel density levels associated with the electronic content; and
modifying an underlying service with which the electronic content communicates based at least in part on the perceived latency for the electronic content and the range of pixel density levels associated with the electronic content.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , further comprising providing the perceived latency information.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , wherein the perceived latency is provided within a graphical user interface configured to render a graph representing the perceived latency over at least a subset of the amount of time.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , wherein the graph represents the perceived latency with respect to the pixel density information per unit of time.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10 , wherein the pixel density information is represented as a percentage of a total number of pixels rendered of the electronic content.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , wherein the perceived latency is provided over a network to an external entity associated with the electronic content based at least in part on an application programming interface method, generated by the one or more computer systems, called by the external entity associated with the electronic content.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , wherein the electronic content is at least one of accessible via a uniform resource locator, stored on a remote server, or renderable with a browser application.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , wherein the amount of time is long enough to at least monitor a threshold percentage of pixels of the electronic content being rendered in a browser application.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , wherein the electronic content is a first electronic page, the pixel density information is first pixel density information, and the perceived latency information is determined based at least in part on a comparison of the first pixel density information and second pixel density information associated with a second electronic page, the second electronic page including at least one of a same number of pixels as the first electronic page or a same location of pixels as the first electronic page.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , wherein collecting the pixel density information includes receiving, from a browser application, at least one of a number of pixels or a percentage of pixels rendered by the browser application.

17. A system for managing electronic content rendering performance, comprising:
a memory that stores computer-executable instructions; and
a processor configured to access the memory, wherein the processor is configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to collectively at least:
receive pixel density information associated with rendering el

Assignees

• Amazon Tech Inc

Inventors

• Saurav Amit

Classifications

• G06F40/14 Primary

  Tree-structured documents (parsing G06F40/205; validation G06F40/226) · CPC title

• G06F40/166

  Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting · CPC title

• G06F11/3065

  Monitoring arrangements determined by the means or processing involved in reporting the monitored data (error or fault reporting or logging G06F11/0766) · CPC title

• G06F11/3419

  by assessing time · CPC title

• G06F2201/81

  Threshold · CPC title