[Wtr-general] downloadtime and render_time

[Bret Pettichord]

Paul Rogers wrote:
> I think IE separates the download time and render time for each page. I always thought that for frames we needed something like
>
> ie.download_time  # time for everything, all frames download, render
> ie.download_times[xx]  # download time for specific item, xx could be frame name, id, index
>
> I'll see what I can do.
>   
Hmm. Right now Watir::IE#wait computes the @down_load_time simply by 
measuring how long it waits. Are you suggesting that IE itself also 
stores download timing information?

It seems to me that breaking down this information by frame would be 
highly imprecise and misleading. The problem is that the different 
frames are typically loaded concurrently. For example, imaging that 
Frame1 takes 4 seconds to load and that Frame2, which is loading at the 
same time, takes 2 seconds. IE#wait would wait for 4 seconds for Frame1 
and then an additional 0 seconds for Frame2. But if it were the other 
way around, it would wait 2 seconds for Frame2 and then 2 more seconds 
for frame4. So what would be the correct breakdown of the down-load-time 
for the frames? Would you spawn a separate wait-thread for each frame to 
provide a more accurate means of measurement?

Bret