Developers can now see how visitors use websites with Google’s Chrome User Experience Report
Google plans to release more Chrome metrics data each month as part of the project named the Chrome User Experience Report.
Google made two announcements at the Chrome Dev Summit - Trusted Web Activities and the Chrome User Experience Report. An interesting concept, Trusted Web Activities will allow greater user experience in certain applications while the Chrome User Experience Report can be used by developers to get an idea of how client machines using Google Chrome perform on websites.
Google plans to release more Chrome metrics data each month as part of a project named the Chrome User Experience Report.The first Chrome User Experience Report contains data from 10 thousand websites (origin URLs) and is focused on loading metrics such as First Paint, First Contentful Paint, Connection Type, Device Type, among others.
Developers can study these statistics and see how a website designed in a certain way loads in Chrome, the best technologies for building modern websites and also get an idea of the average loading metrics across the web.
The data is not downloadable. Developers can access and query the data using a Google account and a Google Cloud Project.
The Chrome User Experience Report announcement comes after last week Google released an update to its "HTTPS encryption on the web" section, part of its Transparency Report. According to Google, 80% of all Google Chrome traffic on Chrome OS is over HTTPS, 75% of all Google Chrome traffic on macOS is over HTTPS, 67% on Windows, 65% on Android, and 61% on Linux. All numbers are compared to the previous years.
In addition, Google said that 89% of all traffic landing on Google domains is now encrypted, up from 85% from last year. Of all products, Google Drive and Gmail are 100% HTTPS, while YouTube is 99% and Google Calendar 98%.Combined, these metrics paint a picture of a fairly rapid progress in the switchover to HTTPS. This is something that Google has been heavily pushing by flagging and pressuring sites that hadn’t yet adopted HTTPS.
As you may recall, Google had announced just over a year ago that it would begin flagging all websites using insecure HTTP connections to transmit private information like passwords or credit information as “not secure” in the Chrome browser. It later expanded those protections to include when users entered any type of data on an HTTP page, including in Chrome’s Incognito mode.
“HTTPS is easier and cheaper than ever before, and it enables both the best performance the web offers and powerful new features that are too sensitive for HTTP,” wrote Emily Schechter of Chrome’s Security Team, at the time of the announcement.
Google plans to release more Chrome metrics data each month as part of a project named the Chrome User Experience Report.The first Chrome User Experience Report contains data from 10 thousand websites (origin URLs) and is focused on loading metrics such as First Paint, First Contentful Paint, Connection Type, Device Type, among others.
Developers can study these statistics and see how a website designed in a certain way loads in Chrome, the best technologies for building modern websites and also get an idea of the average loading metrics across the web.
The data is not downloadable. Developers can access and query the data using a Google account and a Google Cloud Project.
The Chrome User Experience Report announcement comes after last week Google released an update to its "HTTPS encryption on the web" section, part of its Transparency Report. According to Google, 80% of all Google Chrome traffic on Chrome OS is over HTTPS, 75% of all Google Chrome traffic on macOS is over HTTPS, 67% on Windows, 65% on Android, and 61% on Linux. All numbers are compared to the previous years.
In addition, Google said that 89% of all traffic landing on Google domains is now encrypted, up from 85% from last year. Of all products, Google Drive and Gmail are 100% HTTPS, while YouTube is 99% and Google Calendar 98%.Combined, these metrics paint a picture of a fairly rapid progress in the switchover to HTTPS. This is something that Google has been heavily pushing by flagging and pressuring sites that hadn’t yet adopted HTTPS.
As you may recall, Google had announced just over a year ago that it would begin flagging all websites using insecure HTTP connections to transmit private information like passwords or credit information as “not secure” in the Chrome browser. It later expanded those protections to include when users entered any type of data on an HTTP page, including in Chrome’s Incognito mode.
“HTTPS is easier and cheaper than ever before, and it enables both the best performance the web offers and powerful new features that are too sensitive for HTTP,” wrote Emily Schechter of Chrome’s Security Team, at the time of the announcement.
