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FrancescoSTL / Site-Sonar

A browser extension which silently crowd-sources ad performance as you browse. Let's put an end to bad ads.
http://site-sonar.com
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Implement Automated Navigation #5

Closed FrancescoSTL closed 8 years ago

FrancescoSTL commented 8 years ago

We'd like to automatically navigate between pages so the user can add this add-on and let it do it's thing while benchmarking.

In order to complete this, I'll need to identify when a page is truly "loaded", aka, when all our potential ad-scripts have been requested and received. This is not as simple as calling onLoad.

My current methodology is when onLoad would be triggered (utilizing webRequest.onCompleted), noting the number of blocked requests we've sent out, and waiting for them to be received back. The issue is that even this is triggering far too soon. Websites like cnn.com which normally have hundreds of requests will only actually log two. Further, sites like ksdk.com which can often have upwards of 1000 reduce to a mere 10 blocked requests that we can track.

More to come

FrancescoSTL commented 8 years ago

See further detail in PR #6

FrancescoSTL commented 8 years ago

Closing now in favor of silent data logging as noted in https://github.com/FrancescoSTL/sherlock/pull/6#issuecomment-236060319