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Record first paint time from chrome.loadTimes (Chrome/Opera, IE11) to Google Analytics
(function ($) {
'use strict';
function recordTimeToFirstPaint() {
// Use Chrome's loadTimes or IE 9+'s msFirstPaint to record the time to render in milliseconds:
var firstPaintTime, timingSource;
if ('chrome' in window && $.isFunction(window.chrome.loadTimes)) {
var loadTimes = window.chrome.loadTimes();
// A small percentage of traffic from Chrome in the wild returns impossibly large values – 2+
// days! – which need to be filtered out:
firstPaintTime = loadTimes.firstPaintTime - loadTimes.startLoadTime;
if (firstPaintTime > 3600) {
Raven.captureMessage('chrome.loadTimes() reported impossible values',
{extra: {loadTimes: loadTimes}});
return;
}
// Convert from seconds to milliseconds:
firstPaintTime = Math.round(firstPaintTime * 1000);
timingSource = 'chrome.loadTimes';
} else if ('performance' in window) {
var navTiming = window.performance.timing;
if (navTiming.navigationStart === 0) {
return; // IE9 bug - see below
}
// See http://msdn.microsoft.com/ff974719
firstPaintTime = navTiming.msFirstPaint - navTiming.navigationStart;
timingSource = 'msFirstPaint';
}
if (typeof firstPaintTime == 'number' && firstPaintTime > 0) {
ga('send', {
hitType: 'timing',
transport: 'beacon',
timingCategory: 'RUM',
timingVar: 'First Paint (ms)',
timingValue: firstPaintTime,
timingLabel: timingSource
});
}
}
// Defer collecting data until after the load event has finished to avoid an IE9
// bug where navigationStart will be 0 until after the browser updates the
// performance.timing data structure:
$(window).on('load', function () {
setTimeout(recordTimeToFirstPaint);
});
})(jQuery);
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