Optimize the timeouts in measurement content scripts

citp / news-disinformation-study

A research project on how web users consume, are exposed to, and share news online.

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Optimize the timeouts in measurement content scripts #77

Closed jcchuang closed 3 years ago

jcchuang commented 3 years ago

https://github.com/citp/news-disinformation-study/blob/2d611b09fd6ed83676bc762a4e7f5521ffb5d6e2/WebScience/Measurements/content-scripts/pageDepth.js#L26

jonathanmayer commented 3 years ago

We're considering optimizations for the content script timers that we use for measuring page depth (in pageNavigation.js) and links in the DOM (in linkExposure.js).

Measure page depth with a throttled onscroll listener (i.e., set a timer to check the scroll depth when onscroll fires and there isn't already a timer set).
Only tick the timer for measuring links when the page has user attention.

jonathanmayer commented 3 years ago

Adding this issue to the web-science repo, closing here.