I’m toying with this idea and hoping to refine it with your feedback. This seems to have sparked some interest.<\/p>\n
The problem with measuring bloat is there are variables – how fast is your connection? Is your computer doing something else at the same time? Are you sharing a wifi connection and someone else is downloading a video? Did you empty out your temporary files? How old is your computer? Were you targeted for a video ad or does the web site show ads only at certain times?<\/p>\n
The one thing I can’t tell when you start a stream is when you actually start hearing the program. It isn’t always easy to tell if an ad when you connect is a prestream ad or just a normal radio ad.<\/p>\n
So let’s say I create a calibration page first. Maybe 5 different streams – you click listen and there is another button to click as soon as you hear the actual stream. Based on that, I attach a relative speed to you. That enables me to then adjust future tests based on your particular situation and make things somewhat apples and apples.<\/p>\n
Once calibrated, then you could wander around testing other streams and over time with multiple people independently measuring the load times, the data becomes fairly reliable. <\/p>\n
So let’s say I calculate a bloat index – how do you see that as being useful?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m toying with this idea and hoping to refine it with your feedback. This seems to have sparked some interest. The problem with measuring bloat is there are variables – how fast is your connection? Is your computer doing something … Continue reading