Web View: Measuring & Monitoring Representative Information on Websites
Antoine Saverimoutou, Bertrand Mathieu, Sandrine Vaton · 2019
Web browsing is a fast-paced and changing domain which delivers a wide set of services to end-users. While endusers' QoE (Quality of Experience) is the main focus of large service companies and service providers, websites' structure on the one hand change relentlessly. There is therefore a strong need to measure the temporal quality of web browsing by using user-representative web browsers, different Internet protocols and types of residential network access. We present in this paper our tool, Web view, which performs automated desktop web browsing sessions where each measurement provides 61 monitoring parameters. An analysis of 8 Million different measurements of web pages' homepage indicate which and how different parameters can impact today's web browsing quality. Web measurement campaigns conducted since February 2018 are represented through a monitoring website. Our analysis and monitoring of measurements on a 10-month period show that Google Chrome brings increased web browsing quality.