[tor-scaling] Lessons Learned at Mozilla All-Hands

[Tom Ritter]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 at 18:52, Mike Perry <mikeperry at torproject.org> wrote:
> Matt Finkle did some experimentation using Selenium and Tor Browser, and
> found that without too much effort, we can add browser runs to our
> metrics, if we can decide which websites to crawl:
> https://people.torproject.org/~sysrqb/.6b01a9228e/all_plots/
>
> Unfortunately though, as those websites change, these performance
> results will become incomparable. However, update pings and update
> throughput inside Tor Browser *are* stable and comparable. We could add
> telemetry just to measure these performance characteristics, and/or
> collect it manually, onionperf style.

Talos uses preset pages, so you could run the Talos tests over Tor to
get comparable results.

-tom