The World Wide Web is still among the most prominent Internet applications. While the Web landscape has been in perpetual movement since the very beginning, these last few years have witnessed some noteworthy proposals such as SPDY, HTTP/2 and QUIC which could disrupt the Web status quo and profoundly reshape the protocols family at application layer.
We’re working toward the definition and assessment of objective metrics (such as SpeedIndex, Above-The-Fold and variants), and on gathering and analyzing subjective user feedback (such as user grades, user-perceived page load time, etc.). In this website you can find more information about the metrics and models we defined, as well as the dataset and code we make available, and of course browse through our publications.
News & awards
- 2020/09 We released the [CNSM’20] dataset
- 2020/09 Our latest papers on Web QoE assessment and on the detection of QoE degradation were accepted at CNSM’20
- 2020/06 We released the [Networking’20] dataset
- 2020/06 Our work on learning WebQoE from raw encrypted packets was accepted in [IFIP Networking-20]
- 2020/06 The journal version of our Wikipedia work was publised in [IEEE TNSM-20]
- 2020/04 Our work linking subjective user Page Load Time and objective metrics was published at [IEEE MedComNet-20]
- 2020/02 FOSDEM’20 talk on Metrics and models for Web performance evaluation (or, How to measure SpeedIndex from raw encrypted packets, and why it matters)
- 2019/12 The Wikimedia legal team has given clearance for the publication of the
[WWW’19] dataset, after having fully prevented user deanonymization and content-linkability. - 2019/08 Our effort in inferring Web QoE from encrypted packets was demonstrated at [ACM SIGCOMM-19]
- 2019/05 Check out our interactive demo on the Quality of Experience of web users that appeared at [INFOCOM-19]
- 2019/04 Our work on a large scale study of Wikipedia users Quality of experience appeared at [WWW-19]
- 2018/08 Check out the video of our [SIGCOMM-18] demo
- 2019/02 Keynote speech at the 22nd ICIN conference, Quality of Experience management workshop
- 2018/08 Check out the video of our [SIGCOMM-18] demo
- 2018/07 We have released the implementation of our approximated ATF metric as a Chrome plugin on GitHub and on the Chrome app store
- 2018/05 Our systematic comparison of ITU-T standard vs QoE metrics has been accepted at [QoMEX-18]
- 2018/04 We are proud that our [PAM-18] work has won the Best dataset award
- 2018/04 Our work on approximating ATF metrics appeared at [PAM-18]
- 2017/04 Our work on studying HTTP/1.1 vs HTTP/2 with objective QoE and subjective MOS metrics appeared at [PAM-17].
- 2016/10 We are proud that our [SIGCOMM-QoE-16] work has received the Best paper award and was reprinted in [ACM SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev.]
- 2016/08 Our work on defining approximated SpeedIndex metrics appeared at [SIGCOMM-QoE-16]
- 2016/04 We are proud that our [INFOCOM-IC-16] work was Finalist at the IEEE Infocom 2016 Innovation Challenge
- 2003/12 Our work on inferring Web connections interruption from TCP-level measurement appeared at [GLOBECOM-03]