Chrome page load time wrong

[sajal]

Was testing a site on chrome... the repeat view showed load time as -2,147,483.648s... Some kind of bug in the experimental chrome agent...

That or ive somehow broken the space-time continuum

[pmeenan]

Yeah, sorry, the error conditions aren't dealt with very gracefully right now. I see that happen when the chrome extension never gets the "complete" notification (which isn't necessarily tied to onLoad). I'll see if we can harden that up a bit and maybe poll the page to see if the navigation timing elements indicate that the page loaded.

Thanks,

-Pat

[Jesse Gersenson]

am seeing this on initial view and repeat view:

london:
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/110529_D0_Q5TA/

san fran:
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/110529_QP_Q5T2/

chi:
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/110529_HE_Q5S2/

[pmeenan]

Yeah, sorry, that's at the top of my list to fix for Chrome. It seems to happen when the extension doesn't get notified that the page completed so the test times out. I haven't figured out a pattern for why it happens but I have a few ideas on how to work around it.

Hopefully I'll have an update to release this week that improves the situation.

Thanks,

-Pat

[pmeenan]

ok, I've beefed up the Chrome onLoad handling so hopefully it will be more reliable now. Let me know if you still see it acting up.

Thanks,

-Pat