Summary

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Methanol is JavaScript based browser page load benchmark.

File information

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README

 - This file.

VERSION

 - Version information file.

engine.js

 - Contains the necessary JavaScript functions for Methanol.

fire-smp.html

 - Starts SMP benchmark suite.

fire-svg.html

 - Starts SVG benchmark suite.

fire.html

 - Starts standard benchmark suite. By default it uses pages defined in sample.js.

intoxicate.js

 - This file needs to be included into index.html of every test sites.

 - <script src="PATH/intoxicate.js"></script>

   - src have to point to intoxicate.js

results.html

 - Blank html page, it necessary when you require results into the url bar.

sample/

 - Sample directory of sites to be benchmarked.

sample.js

 - Sample js file that contains the references in an array to the sites.

smp/

 - Directory of SMP test pages.

smp.js

 - Contains the references to the SMP test pages.

svg/

 - Directory of SVG test pages.

svg.js

 - Contains the references to the SVG test pages.

Behavior modifier options for the engine

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iter=NUMBER

 - set Methanol how many times have to load each page

 - default value: 10

skipped=NUMBER

 - set the number of dropped (warm up) iterations, these iterations won't be counted in results

 - notice: the first run will fill caches with e.g. images, css, js

 - default value: 2

syncStart=1/0

 - 1 = true, 0 = false

 - provide a synchronized start for two or more simultaneously started Methanols

 - notice: useful for benchmarking more simultaneously running Methanol in separate processes or in

   separate browser-tabs, browser-windows

 - default value: 0

reportToUrl=1/0

 - 1 = true, 0 = false

 - report results into the url bar

 - shows the results when Methanol finished and redirects the page to results.html and fill the

   url bar with the results after results.html

 - default value: 0

Usage example:

 - fire.html?iter=6&skipped=1&synchStart=0&reportToUrl=1

Suggested usage with QtWebKit's QtTestBrowser or MiniBrowser

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Start the testbrowser with -print-loaded-urls option, when Methanol finished the running the

results will be printed to the shell's standard output, so you can parse it for further utilization and

automatization purposes.