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Visual Performance Test Example
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Introduction

eValid has the capability to playback any recorded script multiple times. Multiple playbacks are used to visually inspect and "recognize" the variance in webpage download times.

Recording The Test

Select a start page for your test. This should be the page that you intend to evaluate for performance timing.

Start Recording To begin recording select Record > Start Recording.

Read Timer Click Record > Timer > Read Timer to have the elapsed time read into the event log on play back.

Stop Recording Once you have completed recording, select Record > Stop Recording.

Script File The completed script is shown here.
Download performance.check.evs.

Multiple Playback

Select Preferences To enable eValid to play back the recorded script multiple times, first, click Settings > Record/Play Preferences...

Playback Preferences ...and set the Multiple Playbacks 'n' value option to the amount of times you would like to test the recorded page. For this example we will set the Multiple Playbacks 'n' value to 50. To enable all playbacks to be entered into the logs, make sure that Append to Logs is checked.

Multiple Playback To start runing the multiple playbacks, select Playback > Control Playback > Run Multiple.

View Timing Log When the multiple playbacks have completed, open the Timing Log by clicking Window > Logs > Timing Log.

Open Charts and Descriptions Page When you are finished viewing the Timing Log you can easily view the information in graphical format by viewing the History Chart. To view the History Chart you can either select the View Graphs button at the bottom of the Timing Log, or if you have closed the timing log, select Window > Logs > Log Graphs.

This will bring up the eValid Dynamic Analysis Charts and Descriptions page.

History Chart Click on the History Chart button.

Graphical Outputs

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History Chart Graphical representation of 50 playbacks of performance.check.evs.