Web Performance Working Group - Publications
- Recommendations
- Candidate Recommendations
- Candidate Recommendation Drafts
- Working Drafts
- First Public Working Drafts
Recommendations
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High Resolution Time Level 2
- 2019-11-21
- Performance
- Web API
This specification defines a JavaScript interface that provides the current time in sub-millisecond resolution and such that it is not subject to system clock skew or adjustments.
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Navigation Timing
- 2012-12-17
- Performance
- Web API
This document provides an interface for web applications to access timing information related to navigation and elements.
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Page Visibility (Second Edition)
- 2013-10-29
- Performance
- Web API
This specification defines a means for site developers to programmatically determine the current visibility state of the page in order to develop power and CPU efficient web applications.
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Performance Timeline
- 2013-12-12
- Performance
- Web API
This specification defines an interface for web applications to access timing information related to navigation and elements. It is used by other specifications, like User Timing.
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User Timing Level 2
- 2019-02-26
- Performance
- Web API
This specification defines an interface to help web developers measure the performance of their applications by giving them access to high precision timestamps.
Candidate Recommendations
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Resource Timing Level 1
- 2017-03-30
- Performance
- Web API
This specification defines an interface for web applications to access timing information related to HTML elements.
Candidate Recommendation Drafts
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Beacon
- 2022-08-03
- Performance
This specification defines an interoperable means for site developers to asynchronously transfer data from the user agent to a web server, with the user agent taking the responsibility to eventually send the data.
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Performance Timeline
- 2022-11-10
- Performance
- Web API
This specification defines an interface for web applications to access timing information related to navigation and elements. It is used by other specifications, like User Timing.
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Performance Timeline
- 2022-11-15
- Performance
- Web API
This specification defines an interface for web applications to access timing information related to navigation and elements. It is used by other specifications, like User Timing.
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Resource Timing
- 2022-11-10
- Performance
- Web API
This specification defines an interface for web applications to access timing information related to HTML elements.
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Resource Timing
- 2023-03-03
- Performance
- Web API
This specification defines an interface for web applications to access timing information related to HTML elements.
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Resource Timing
- 2023-03-13
- Performance
- Web API
This specification defines an interface for web applications to access timing information related to HTML elements.
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User Timing Level 3
- 2022-08-03
- Performance
- Web API
This specification defines an interface to help web developers measure the performance of their applications by giving them access to high precision timestamps.
Working Drafts
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Device Memory
- 2022-07-22
- Performance
This document defines a HTTP Client Hint header to surface device capability for memory i.e. device RAM, in order to enable web apps to customize content depending on device memory constraints.
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High Resolution Time
- 2023-03-22
- Performance
- Web API
This specification defines an API that provides the current time in sub-millisecond resolution and such that it is not subject to system clock skew or adjustments.
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Navigation Timing Level 2
- 2023-02-06
- Performance
- Web API
This document provides an interface for web applications to access timing information related to navigation and elements.
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Network Error Logging
- 2018-09-25
- Performance
- Web API
Navigation Error Logging defines an API to store and retrieve error data related to the previous navigations of a document.
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Reporting API
- 2022-09-17
- Performance
- Web API
The reporting API provides a generic reporting framework which allows Web developers to associate a set of named reporting endpoints with an origin. Various platform features (like Content Security Policy, Network Error Reporting, and others) will use these endpoints to deliver feature-specific reports in a consistent manner.
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requestIdleCallback() Cooperative Scheduling of Background Tasks
- 2022-06-28
- Performance
- Web API
The requestIdleCallback method is a more appropriate way for scheduling background tasks during times when the browser would otherwise be idle.
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Server Timing
- 2023-03-17
- Performance
- Web API
Server Timing, part of the performance timeline metrics, provides API access to request-response cycle performance metrics communicated from the server to the user agent.
First Public Working Drafts
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Event Timing API
- 2022-05-24
- Performance
This document defines an API that provides web page authors with insights into the latency of certain events triggered by user interactions.
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Largest Contentful Paint
- 2022-05-24
- Performance
This document defines an API that enables monitoring the largest paint an element triggered on screen.
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Long Tasks API 1
- 2017-09-07
- Performance
This document defines an API that web page authors can use to detect presence of “long tasks” that monopolize the UI thread for extended periods of time and block other critical tasks from being executed - e.g. reacting to user input.
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Paint Timing 1
- 2017-09-07
- Performance
This document defines an API that can be used to capture a series of key moments (First Paint, First Contentful Paint) during pageload which developers care about.
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Timing Entry Names Registry
- 2019-07-23
- Performance
This registry is intended to provide a central location for enumerating identified interface types of PerformanceEntry objects, which contain various data metrics for the the full lifecycle of a web application.