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Bug 5547 - Add timestamp information to the moki format
Summary: Add timestamp information to the moki format
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: mobileOK Basic checker
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Java Library (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P5 enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Sean Owen
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Reported: 2008-03-07 11:24 UTC by Guido Garcia Bernardo
Modified: 2008-03-13 00:40 UTC (History)
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Description Guido Garcia Bernardo 2008-03-07 11:24:05 UTC
This is not a bug, but an enhancement request.

I think it would be useful to add some timestamps to know when a .moki file was generated, maybe in the aboutMe section:

<aboutMe>
   <name>mobileOK Basic Reference Implementation</name>
   <URI>http://www.w3.org/.../Overview.html</URI>
   <version>1.0</version>
   <callingIP>...</callingIP>
   <timestamp>1204886500265</timestamp> <!-- System.currentTimeMillis() -->
</aboutMe>

Even more useful in my opinion, and maybe not as easy to implement, is to add the same information for each requested resource, in order to allow further calculations about how much the whole web site or any single resource (image, stylesheet...) took to load.
Comment 1 Sean Owen 2008-03-09 19:46:04 UTC
The HTTPResponse elements include the server headers, which typically include a Date header indicating when the response was sent:

   <header name="date" value="Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:54:01 GMT"/>

Is that what you need? Yes it would not otherwise be hard to add a timestamp.
Comment 2 Guido Garcia Bernardo 2008-03-11 09:38:31 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
I think Date header is not mandatory, so it is not always present. On the other hand, without a request timestamp to be used as a reference, it is not possible to determine how much a resource took to load.

Load time is not defined as a test in W3C mobileOk Basic Test 1.0 (maybe because a "slow page" is a subjective and network dependant concept) but that information is useful to calculate some kind of Quality Score for each web resource (similar to http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=87144).

Thanks.
Comment 3 Sean Owen 2008-03-13 00:40:17 UTC
(waves magic wand) And so it is! <timestamp> now appears under <aboutMe>