Abstract

This specification defines an interface for web applications to access the complete timing information for resources in a document.

Status of This Document

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at https://www.w3.org/TR/.

This specification is ready for wide review, with the following features at risk for the first release:

  1. Dependency with Performance Timeline 2, since performance observers are lacking implementations;
  2. Dependency with High Resolution Time 2 and workers support, including workerStart, since we're still refining time origin;
  3. nextHopProtocol, transferSize, encodedBodySize, and decodedBodySize, since we're currently lacking implementations;
  4. secureConnectionStart as a required attribute.

This document was published by the Web Performance Working Group as a Working Draft. This document is intended to become a W3C Recommendation. If you wish to make comments regarding this document, please send them to public-web-perf@w3.org (subscribe, archives) with [ResourceTiming] at the start of your email's subject. All comments are welcome.

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1. Introduction

This section is non-normative.

User latency is an important quality benchmark for Web Applications. While JavaScript-based mechanisms can provide comprehensive instrumentation for user latency measurements within an application, in many cases, they are unable to provide a complete end-to-end latency picture. This document introduces the PerformanceResourceTiming interface to allow JavaScript mechanisms to collect complete timing information related to resources on a document. Navigation Timing 2 [NAVIGATION-TIMING-2] extends this specification to provide additional timing information associated with a navigation.

For example, the following JavaScript shows a simple attempt to measure the time it takes to fetch a resource:

Example 1
<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
  </head>
  <body onload="loadResources()">
    <script>
        function loadResources()
        {
           var start = new Date().getTime();
           var image1 = new Image();
           var resourceTiming = function() {
               var now = new Date().getTime();
               var latency = now - start;
               alert("End to end resource fetch: " + latency);
           };

           image1.onload = resourceTiming;
           image1.src = 'https://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_main.png';
        }
    </script>
    <img src="https://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home.png">
  </body>
</html>

Though this script can measure the time it takes to fetch a resource, it cannot break down the time spent in various phases. Further, the script cannot easily measure the time it takes to fetch resources described in markup.

To address the need for complete information on user experience, this document introduces the PerformanceResourceTiming interface. This interface allows JavaScript mechanisms to provide complete client-side latency measurements within applications. With this interface, the previous example can be modified to measure a user's perceived load time of a resource.

The following script calculates the amount of time it takes to fetch every resource in the page, even those defined in markup. This example assumes that this page is hosted on https://www.w3.org. One could further measure the amount of time it takes in every phase of fetching a resource with the PerformanceResourceTiming interface.

Example 2
<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
  </head>
  <body onload="loadResources()">
    <script>
       function loadResources()
       {
          var image1 = new Image();
          image1.onload = resourceTiming;
          image1.src = 'https://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_main.png';
       }

       function resourceTiming()
       {
           var resourceList = window.performance.getEntriesByType("resource");
           for (i = 0; i < resourceList.length; i++)
           {
              if (resourceList[i].initiatorType == "img")
              {
                 alert("End to end resource fetch: "+ resourceList[i].responseEnd - resourceList[i].startTime);
              }
           }
       }
    </script>
    <img id="image0" src="https://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home.png">
  </body>
</html>

2. Conformance

As well as sections marked as non-normative, all authoring guidelines, diagrams, examples, and notes in this specification are non-normative. Everything else in this specification is normative.

The key words MAY, MUST, MUST NOT, SHOULD, and SHOULD NOT are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].

Requirements phrased in the imperative as part of algorithms (such as "strip any leading space characters" or "return false and abort these steps") are to be interpreted with the meaning of the key word ("MUST", "SHOULD", " MAY", etc) used in introducing the algorithm.

Some conformance requirements are phrased as requirements on attributes, methods or objects. Such requirements are to be interpreted as requirements on user agents.

Conformance requirements phrased as algorithms or specific steps may be implemented in any manner, so long as the end result is equivalent. (In particular, the algorithms defined in this specification are intended to be easy to follow, and not intended to be performant.)

The IDL fragments in this specification must be interpreted as required for conforming IDL fragments, as described in the Web IDL specification. [WebIDL]

3. Terminology

The construction "a Foo object", where Foo is actually an interface, is sometimes used instead of the more accurate "an object implementing the interface Foo".

The term DOM is used to refer to the API set made available to scripts in Web applications, and does not necessarily imply the existence of an actual Document object or of any other Node objects as defined in the DOM specification. [DOM]

A DOM attribute is said to be getting when its value is being retrieved (such as by author script), and is said to be setting when a new value is assigned to it.

The term JavaScript is used to refer to ECMA262, rather than the official term ECMAScript, since the term JavaScript is more widely known. [ECMA-262]

The term resource is used to refer to elements and any other user-initiated fetches throughout this specification. For example, a resource could originate from XMLHttpRequest objects [[XMLHttpRequest], HTML elements [HTML5] such as iframe, img, script, object, embed, and link with the link type of stylesheet, and SVG elements [SVG11] such as svg.

The term cross-origin is used to mean non same origin.

The term current document refers to the document associated with the Window object's newest Document object.

Throughout this work, all time values are measured in milliseconds since the start of navigation of the document [HR-TIME-2]. For example, the start of navigation of the document occurs at time 0.

The term current time refers to the number of milliseconds since the start of navigation of the document until the current moment in time.

Note

This definition of time is based on the High Resolution Time specification [ HR-TIME-2] and is different from the definition of time used in the Navigation Timing specification [ NAVIGATION-TIMING], where time is measured in milliseconds since midnight of January 1, 1970 (UTC).

4. Resource Timing

4.1 Introduction

This section is non-normative.

The PerformanceResourceTiming interface facilitates timing measurement of downloadable resources. For example, this interface is available for XMLHttpRequest objects [XMLHttpRequest], HTML elements [HTML5] such as iframe, img, script, object, embed, and link with the link type of stylesheet, and SVG elements [SVG11] such as svg.

4.2 Resources Included in the PerformanceResourceTiming Interface

All resources fetched by the current browsing [HTML5] or worker [WORKERS] context's MUST be included as PerformanceResourceTiming objects in the Performance Timeline of the relevant context. Resources that are retrieved from relevant application caches or local resources MUST be included as PerformanceResourceTiming objects in the Performance Timeline [PERFORMANCE-TIMELINE-2]. Resources for which the fetch was initiated, but was later aborted (e.g. due to a network error) MAY be included as PerformanceResourceTiming objects in the Performance Timeline and MUST contain initialized attribute values for processed substeps of the processing model.

The rest of this section is non-normative.

Examples:

4.3 The PerformanceResourceTiming Interface

The PerformanceResourceTiming interface participates in the Performance Timeline and extends the following attributes of the PerformanceEntry interface:

name
This attribute MUST return the resolved URL of the requested resource. This attribute MUST NOT change even if the fetch redirected to a different URL.
entryType
The entryType attribute MUST return the DOMString "resource".
startTime
The startTime attribute MUST return a DOMHighResTimeStamp [HR-TIME-2] with the time immediately before the user agent starts to queue the resource for fetching. If there are HTTP redirects or equivalent when fetching the resource, and if all the redirects or equivalent are from the same origin as the current document or the timing allow check algorithm passes, this attribute MUST return the same value as redirectStart. Otherwise, this attribute MUST return the same value as fetchStart.
duration
The duration attribute MUST return a DOMHighResTimeStamp equal to the difference between responseEnd and startTime, respectively.
[Exposed=(Window,Worker)]
interface PerformanceResourceTiming : PerformanceEntry {
    readonly attribute DOMString           initiatorType;
    readonly attribute DOMString           nextHopProtocol;
    readonly attribute DOMHighResTimeStamp workerStart;
    readonly attribute DOMHighResTimeStamp redirectStart;
    readonly attribute DOMHighResTimeStamp redirectEnd;
    readonly attribute DOMHighResTimeStamp fetchStart;
    readonly attribute DOMHighResTimeStamp domainLookupStart;
    readonly attribute DOMHighResTimeStamp domainLookupEnd;
    readonly attribute DOMHighResTimeStamp connectStart;
    readonly attribute DOMHighResTimeStamp connectEnd;
    readonly attribute DOMHighResTimeStamp secureConnectionStart;
    readonly attribute DOMHighResTimeStamp requestStart;
    readonly attribute DOMHighResTimeStamp responseStart;
    readonly attribute DOMHighResTimeStamp responseEnd;
    readonly attribute unsigned long long  transferSize;
    readonly attribute unsigned long long  encodedBodySize;
    readonly attribute unsigned long long  decodedBodySize;
    serializer = {inherit, attribute};
};

On getting, the initiatorType attribute MUST return one of the following DOMString values:

On getting, the attribute nextHopProtocol returns the network protocol used to fetch the resource, as identified by the ALPN Protocol ID [RFC7301]; resources retrieved from relevant application caches or local resources, return an empty string. When a proxy is configured, if a tunnel connection is established then this attribute MUST return the ALPN Protocol ID of the tunneled protocol, otherwise it MUST return the ALPN Protocol ID of the first hop to the proxy. In order to have precisely one way to represent any ALPN protocol ID, the following additional constraints apply: octets in the ALPN protocol MUST NOT be percent-encoded if they are valid token characters except "%", and when using percent-encoding, uppercase hex digits MUST be used.

Note that the nextHopProtocol attribute is intended to identify the network protocol in use for the fetch regardless of how it was actually negotiated; that is, even if ALPN is not used to negotiate the network protocol, this attribute still uses the ALPN Protocol ID's to indicate the protocol in use.

On getting, the workerStart attribute MUST return as follows:

  1. If the current browsing or worker context's have an active worker [SERVICE-WORKERS]:

    1. the time immediately before the user agent fires an event named `fetch` at the active worker if the worker is available.
    2. the time immediately before the user agent runs the worker required to service the request.
  2. zero, otherwise.

On getting, the redirectStart attribute MUST return as follows:

  1. The time immediately before the user agent starts to fetch the resource that initiates the redirect, if there are HTTP redirects or equivalent when fetching the resource and all the redirects or equivalent pass the timing allow check algorithm.
  2. zero, otherwise.

On getting, the redirectEnd attribute MUST return as follows:

  1. The time immediately after receiving the last byte of the response of the last redirect, if there are HTTP redirects or equivalent when fetching the resource and all the redirects or equivalent pass the timing allow check algorithm.
  2. zero, otherwise.

On getting, the fetchStart attribute MUST return as follows:

  1. The time immediately before the user agent starts to fetch the final resource in the redirection, if there are HTTP redirects or equivalent.
  2. The time immediately before the user agent starts to fetch the resource otherwise.

On getting, the domainLookupStart attribute MUST return as follows:

  1. The same value as fetchStart, if a persistent connection [RFC7230] is used or the resource is retrieved from relevant application caches or local resources.
  2. The time immediately after the user agent before the domain data retrieval from the domain information cache, if the user agent has the domain information in cache.
  3. The time immediately before the user agent starts the domain name lookup for the resource, if the last non-redirected fetch of the resource passes the timing allow check algorithm.
  4. zero, otherwise.

On getting, the domainLookupEnd attribute MUST return as follows:

  1. The same value as fetchStart, if a persistent connection [RFC7230] is used or the resource is retrieved from relevant application caches or local resources.
  2. The time immediately after the user agent ends the domain data retrieval from the domain information cache, if the user agent has the domain information in cache.
  3. The time immediately before the user agent finishes the domain name lookup for the resource, if the last non-redirected fetch of the resource passes the timing allow check algorithm.
  4. zero, otherwise.

On getting, the connectStart attribute MUST return as follows:

  1. The same value as fetchStart, if a persistent connection [RFC7230] is used or the resource is retrieved from relevant application caches or local resources.
  2. The time immediately before the user agent start establishing the connection to the server to retrieve the resource, if the last non-redirected fetch of the resource passes the timing allow check algorithm.

    If the transport connection fails and the user agent reopens a connection, connectStart SHOULD return the corresponding value of the new connection.

  3. zero, otherwise.

On getting, the connectEnd attribute MUST return as follows:

  1. The same value as fetchStart, if a persistent connection [RFC7230] is used or the resource is retrieved from relevant application caches or local resources.
  2. The time immediately after the user agent start establishing the connection to the server to retrieve the resource, if the last non-redirected fetch of the resource passes the timing allow check algorithm.

    The returned time MUST include the time interval to establish the transport connection, as well as other time intervals such as SSL handshake and SOCKS authentication.

    If the transport connection fails and the user agent reopens a connection, connectEnd SHOULD return the corresponding value of the new connection.

  3. zero, otherwise.

On getting, the secureConnectionStart attribute MUST return as follows:

  1. The same value as fetchStart, if a persistent connection [RFC7230] is used or the resource is retrieved from relevant application caches or local resources.
  2. The time immediately before the user agent starts the handshake process to secure the current connection, if a secure transport is used and the last non-redirected fetch of the resource passes the timing allow check algorithm.
  3. zero, otherwise.

On getting, the requestStart attribute MUST return as follows:

  1. The time immediately before the user agent starts requesting the resource from the server, or from relevant application caches or from local resources, if the last non-redirected fetch of the resource passes the timing allow check algorithm.

    If the transport connection fails after a request is sent and the user agent reopens a connection and resend the request, requestStart MUST return the corresponding values of the new request.

  2. zero, otherwise.
Note

On getting, the responseStart attribute MUST return as follows:

  1. The time immediately after the user agent's HTTP parser receives the first byte of the response (e.g. frame header bytes for HTTP/2, or response status line for HTTP/1.x) from relevant application caches, or from local resources or from the server if the last non-redirected fetch of the resource passes the timing allow check algorithm.
  2. zero, otherwise.
Note

On getting, the responseEnd attribute MUST return as follows:

  1. The time immediately after the user agent receives the last byte of the response or immediately before the transport connection is closed, whichever comes first. The resource here can be received either from relevant application caches, local resources, or from the server.

On getting, the transferSize attribute MUST return as follows:

  1. the size, in octets received from a HTTP-network fetch, consumed by the response header fields and the response payload body [RFC7230] if the last non-redirected fetch of the resource passes the timing allow check algorithm.

    If there are HTTP redirects or equivalent when navigating and if all the redirects or equivalent are from the same origin [RFC6454], this attribute SHOULD include the HTTP overhead of incurred redirects.

    This attribute SHOULD include HTTP overhead (such as HTTP/1.1 chunked encoding and whitespace around header fields, including newlines, and HTTP/2 frame overhead, along with other server-to-client frames on the same stream), but SHOULD NOT include lower-layer protocol overhead (such as TLS [RFC5246]or TCP).

    Note
  2. zero otherwise, including for resources retrieved from relevant application caches or from local resources.

On getting, the encodedBodySize attribute MUST return as follows:

  1. The size, in octets, received from a HTTP-network-or-cache fetch, of the payload body [RFC7230], prior to removing any applied content-codings [RFC7231], if the last non-redirected fetch of the resource passes the timing allow check algorithm.
  2. The size, in octets, of the payload body prior to removing any applied content-codings if the resource is retrieved from relevant application caches or from local resources.
  3. zero, otherwise.
Note

On getting, the decodedBodySize attribute MUST return as follows:

  1. The size, in octets, received from a HTTP-network-or-cache fetch, of the message body [RFC7230], after removing any applied content-codings [RFC7231], if the last non-redirected fetch of the resource passes the timing allow check algorithm.
  2. The size, in octets, of the payload after removing any applied content-codings, if the resource is retrieved from relevant application caches or from local resources.
  3. zero, otherwise.

4.4 Extensions to the Performance Interface

The user agent MAY choose to limit how many resources are included as PerformanceResourceTiming objects in the Performance Timeline [PERFORMANCE-TIMELINE-2]. This section extends the Performance interface to allow controls over the number of PerformanceResourceTiming objects stored.

The recommended minimum number of PerformanceResourceTiming objects is 150, though this may be changed by the user agent. setResourceTimingBufferSize can be called to request a change to this limit.

Each ECMAScript global environment has:

partial interface Performance {
    void clearResourceTimings();
    void setResourceTimingBufferSize(unsigned long maxSize);
    attribute EventHandler onresourcetimingbufferfull;
};

The method clearResourceTimings runs the following steps:

  1. remove all PerformanceResourceTiming objects in the performance entry buffer.
  2. set resource timing buffer current size to 0.
  3. set resource timing buffer full flag to false.

The setResourceTimingBufferSize method runs the following steps:

  1. Set resource timing buffer size limit to the maxSize parameter. If the maxSize parameter is less than resource timing buffer current size, no PerformanceResourceTiming objects are to be removed from the performance entry buffer.
  2. Set resource timing buffer full flag to false.

The attribute onresourcetimingbufferfull is the event handler for the resourcetimingbufferfull event.

To add a PerformanceResourceTiming entry (new entry) in the performance entry buffer, run the following steps:

  1. If resource timing buffer current size is less than resource timing buffer size limit, run the following substeps:
    1. Add new entry to the performance entry buffer.
    2. increase resource timing buffer current size by 1.
  2. Otherwise, if the resource timing buffer full flag is false, run the following substeps:
    1. fire a simple event named resourcetimingbufferfull at the Document, with its bubbles attribute initialized to true, and has no default action.
    2. set the resource timing buffer full flag to true.

4.5 Cross-origin Resources

Cross-origin resources MUST be included as PerformanceResourceTiming objects in the Performance Timeline. If the timing allow check algorithm fails for a cross-origin resource, these attributes of its PerformanceResourceTiming object MUST be set to zero: redirectStart, redirectEnd, domainLookupStart, domainLookupEnd, connectStart, connectEnd, requestStart, responseStart, secureConnectionStart, transferSize, encodedBodySize and decodedBodySize.

Server-side applications may return the Timing-Allow-Origin HTTP response header to allow the User Agent to fully expose, to the document origin(s) specified, the values of attributes that would have been zero due to the cross-origin restrictions previously specified in this section.

4.5.1 Timing-Allow-Origin Response Header

The Timing-Allow-Origin HTTP response header field can be used to communicate a policy indicating origin(s) that are allowed to see values of attributes that would have been zero due to the cross-origin restrictions. The header's value is represented by the following ABNF [RFC5234]:

      Timing-Allow-Origin = 1#( origin-or-null / wildcard )

The sender MAY generate multiple Timing-Allow-Origin header fields. The recipient MAY combine multiple Timing-Allow-Origin header fields by appending each subsequent field value to the combined field value in order, separated by a comma.

The timing allow check algorithm, which checks whether a resource's timing information can be shared with the current document, is as follows:

  1. If the resource is same origin, return pass.

  2. If the Timing-Allow-Origin header value list contains a case-sensitive match for the value of the origin of the current document, or a wildcard ("*"), return pass.

  3. Return fail.

5. Process

5.1 Processing Model

The following graph illustrates the timing attributes defined by the PerformanceResourceTiming interface. Attributes underlined may not be available when fetching resources from different origins. User agents may perform internal processing in between timings, which allow for non-normative intervals between timings.

Fig. 1 This figure illustrates the timing attributes defined by the PerformanceResourceTiming interface. Attributes in parenthesis indicate that they may not be available if the resource does not pass the timing allow check algorithm.
Resource Timing attributes

For each resource fetched by the current browsing context, excluding resources fetched by cross-origin stylesheets fetched with no-cors policy, perform the following steps:

Issue 1

Above cross-origin exclusion should be defined via Fetch registry: CSS needs to be defined in terms of Fetch and set some kind of "opaque request flag" for no-CORS CSS subresources. In turn, Resource Timing should interface with Fetch registry to surface resource fetch events.

  1. Create a new PerformanceResourceTiming object and set entryType to the DOMString resource.
  2. Immediately before the user agent starts to queue the resource for retrieval, record the current time in startTime, and set nextHopProtocol to the empty DOMString.
  3. Record the initiator of the resource in initiatorType.
  4. Record the resolved URL of the requested resource in name. If there is an active worker ([SERVICE-WORKERS]) matching the current browsing or worker context's, immediately before the user agent runs the worker record the time as workerStart, or if the worker is already available, immediately before the event named `fetch` is fired at the active worker record the time as workerStart. Otherwise, if there is no matching service worker registration, set workerStart value to zero.
  5. Immediately before a user agent starts the fetching process, record the current time as fetchStart. Let domainLookupStart, domainLookupEnd, connectStart and connectEnd be the same value as fetchStart.
  6. If the user agent is to reuse the data from another existing or completed fetch initiated from the current document, abort the remaining steps.
  7. If fetching the resource is aborted for any reason, abort the remaining steps.
  8. If the last non-redirected fetch of the resource fails the timing allow check, the user agent MUST set redirectStart, redirectEnd, domainLookupStart, domainLookupEnd, connectStart, connectEnd, requestStart, responseStart and secureConnectionStart to zero and go to step 17.
  9. Let domainLookupStart, domainLookupEnd, connectStart and connectEnd be the same value as fetchStart.
  10. If the resource is fetched from the relevant application cache or local resources, including the HTTP cache [RFC7234], go to step 15.
  11. If no domain lookup is required, go to step 13. Otherwise, immediately before a user agent starts the domain name lookup, record the time as domainLookupStart.
  12. Record the time as domainLookupEnd immediately after the domain name lookup is successfully done. A user agent may need multiple retries before that. If the domain lookup fails, abort the remaining steps.
  13. If a persistent transport connection is used to fetch the resource, let connectStart and connectEnd be the same value of domainLookupEnd. Otherwise, record the time as connectStart immediately before initiating the connection to the server and record the time as connectEnd immediately after the connection to the server or the proxy is established. A user agent may need multiple retries before this time. Once connection is established set the value of nextHopProtocol to the ALPN ID used by the connection. If a connection can not be established, abort the remaining steps.
  14. The user agent MUST set the secureConnectionStart attribute as follows:
    1. When a secure transport is used, the user agent MUST record the time as secureConnectionStart immediately before the handshake process to secure the connection.
    2. When a secure transport is not used, the user agent MUST set the value of secureConnectionStart to 0.
  15. Immediately before a user agent starts sending the request for the resource, record the current time as requestStart.
  16. Record the time as responseStart immediately after the user agent receives the first byte of the response.
  17. Record the time as responseEnd immediately after receiving the last byte of the response.
    1. Return to step 13 if the user agent fails to send the request or receive the entire response, and needs to reopen the connection.
    2. Set the value of transferSize, encodedBodySize, decodedBodySize to corresponding values, subject to timing allow check algorithm.
  18. Record the difference between responseEnd and startTime in duration.
  19. If the fetched resource results in an HTTP redirect or equivalent, then
    1. If the current resource and the redirected resource are not from the same origin as the current document, and the timing allow check algorithm fails for either resource, set redirectStart and redirectEnd to 0. Then, return to step 5 with the new resource.
    2. If the value of redirectStart is not set, let it be the value of fetchStart.
    3. Let redirectEnd be the value of responseEnd.
    4. Set all the attributes in the PerformanceResourceTiming object to 0 except startTime, redirectStart, redirectEnd, and initiatorType.
    5. Return to step 5 with the new resource.
  20. Queue the PerformanceResourceTiming object.
  21. Add the PerformanceResourceTiming object to the performance entry buffer.
Note

This specification does not specify whether steps 20 and 21 should run before or after the load event of the resource—see issue 82 for related discussion.

5.2 Monotonic Clock

The value of the timing attributes MUST monotonically increase to ensure timing attributes are not skewed by adjustments to the system clock while fetching the resource. The difference between any two chronologically recorded timing attributes MUST never be negative. For all resources, including subdocument resources, the user agent MUST record the system clock at the beginning of the root document navigation and define subsequent timing attributes in terms of a monotonic clock measuring time elapsed from the beginning of the navigation.

6. Privacy and Security

This section is non-normative.

The PerformanceResourceTiming interface exposes timing information for a resource to any web page or worker that has requested that resource. To limit the access to the PerformanceResourceTiming interface, the same origin policy is enforced by default and certain attributes are set to zero, as described in 4.5 Cross-origin Resources. Resource providers can explicitly allow all timing information to be collected for a resource by adding the Timing-Allow-Origin HTTP response header, which specifies the domains that are allowed to access the timing information.

Statistical fingerprinting is a privacy concern where a malicious web site may determine whether a user has visited a third-party web site by measuring the timing of cache hits and misses of resources in the third-party web site. Though the PerformanceResourceTiming interface gives timing information for resources in a document, the cross-origin restrictions prevent making this privacy concern any worse than it is today using the load event on resources to measure timing to determine cache hits and misses.

A. Acknowledgments

Thanks to Anne Van Kesteren, Annie Sullivan, Arvind Jain, Boris Zbarsky, Darin Fisher, Jason Weber, Jonas Sicking, James Simonsen, Karen Anderson, Kyle Scholz, Nic Jansma, Philippe Le Hegaret, Sigbjørn Vik, Steve Souders, Todd Reifsteck, Tony Gentilcore and William Chan for their contributions to this work.

B. References

B.1 Normative references

[Beacon]
Beacon. Ilya Grigorik; Alois Reitbauer; Arvind Jain; Jatinder Mann. W3C. 28 October 2016. W3C Working Draft. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/beacon/
[CSS-SYNTAX-3]
CSS Syntax Module Level 3. Tab Atkins Jr.; Simon Sapin. W3C. 20 February 2014. W3C Candidate Recommendation. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-syntax-3/
[DOM]
DOM Standard. Anne van Kesteren. WHATWG. Living Standard. URL: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/
[Fetch]
Fetch Standard. Anne van Kesteren. WHATWG. Living Standard. URL: https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/
[HR-TIME-2]
High Resolution Time Level 2. Ilya Grigorik; James Simonsen; Jatinder Mann. W3C. 1 November 2016. W3C Candidate Recommendation. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/hr-time-2/
[HTML5]
HTML5. Ian Hickson; Robin Berjon; Steve Faulkner; Travis Leithead; Erika Doyle Navara; Theresa O'Connor; Silvia Pfeiffer. W3C. 28 October 2014. W3C Recommendation. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
[PERFORMANCE-TIMELINE-2]
Performance Timeline Level 2. Ilya Grigorik; Jatinder Mann; Zhiheng Wang. W3C. 8 December 2016. W3C Candidate Recommendation. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/performance-timeline-2/
[RFC2119]
Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels. S. Bradner. IETF. March 1997. Best Current Practice. URL: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119
[RFC2397]
The "data" URL scheme. L. Masinter. IETF. August 1998. Proposed Standard. URL: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2397
[RFC5234]
Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF. D. Crocker, Ed.; P. Overell. IETF. January 2008. Internet Standard. URL: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5234
[RFC6454]
The Web Origin Concept. A. Barth. IETF. December 2011. Proposed Standard. URL: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6454
[RFC7230]
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing. R. Fielding, Ed.; J. Reschke, Ed.. IETF. June 2014. Proposed Standard. URL: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230
[RFC7231]
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content. R. Fielding, Ed.; J. Reschke, Ed.. IETF. June 2014. Proposed Standard. URL: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231
[RFC7234]
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Caching. R. Fielding, Ed.; M. Nottingham, Ed.; J. Reschke, Ed.. IETF. June 2014. Proposed Standard. URL: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7234
[RFC7301]
Transport Layer Security (TLS) Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation Extension. S. Friedl; A. Popov; A. Langley; E. Stephan. IETF. July 2014. Proposed Standard. URL: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7301
[SERVICE-WORKERS]
Service Workers 1. Alex Russell; Jungkee Song; Jake Archibald; Marijn Kruisselbrink. W3C. 11 October 2016. W3C Working Draft. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/service-workers-1/
[WORKERS]
Web Workers. Ian Hickson. W3C. 24 September 2015. W3C Working Draft. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/workers/
[WebIDL]
Web IDL. Cameron McCormack; Boris Zbarsky; Tobie Langel. W3C. 15 December 2016. W3C Working Draft. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/WebIDL-1/
[XMLHttpRequest]
XMLHttpRequest Level 1. Anne van Kesteren; Julian Aubourg; Jungkee Song; Hallvord Steen et al. W3C. 6 October 2016. W3C Note. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/

B.2 Informative references

[ECMA-262]
ECMAScript Language Specification. Ecma International. URL: https://tc39.github.io/ecma262/
[HTML]
HTML Standard. Anne van Kesteren; Domenic Denicola; Ian Hickson; Philip Jägenstedt; Simon Pieters. WHATWG. Living Standard. URL: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/
[NAVIGATION-TIMING]
Navigation Timing. Zhiheng Wang. W3C. 17 December 2012. W3C Recommendation. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/navigation-timing/
[NAVIGATION-TIMING-2]
Navigation Timing Level 2. Ilya Grigorik; Tobin Titus; Jatinder Mann; Arvind Jain. W3C. 22 March 2017. W3C Working Draft. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/navigation-timing-2/
[RFC5246]
The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2. T. Dierks; E. Rescorla. IETF. August 2008. Proposed Standard. URL: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5246
[SVG11]
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 (Second Edition). Erik Dahlström; Patrick Dengler; Anthony Grasso; Chris Lilley; Cameron McCormack; Doug Schepers; Jonathan Watt; Jon Ferraiolo; Jun Fujisawa; Dean Jackson et al. W3C. 16 August 2011. W3C Recommendation. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/
[WEBIDL]
Web IDL. Cameron McCormack; Boris Zbarsky; Tobie Langel. W3C. 15 December 2016. W3C Working Draft. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/WebIDL-1/