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Injected Instrumentation
You can do whatever you want in the site to profile the event you want to capture. You can see the instrumented code based on the performance policy injected into the blog site code. AjaxView injects necessary code for performing profiling, logging an send it to AjaxView at the head of the page.
<head profile=”http://gmpg.org/xfn/11″>
<script>
var PageLoadStart = new Date().getTime();
// other var declarations
var emk_OkToSendNextLog = true;
var verbose = false;
function emk_CheckLogs() {
if( emk_LogRecords.length >= emk_MAX_LOG_RECORDS_BEFORE_FLUSH ) {
emk_FlushLogs();
}
}
function emk_FlushLogs() {
// implementation
}
// other functions
</script>
</head>
<!– actual page code –>
Whereever required, it injects the profile code like the following
(tmpCache_emk_LogRecords.push(‘\r\nLM:PerformancePolicy:PerformancePolicy:SCRIPTENTER,’),
tmpCache_emk_LogRecords.push(new Date().getTime()),
During the loading and other execution of your web application, the above profile codes send the log details back to AjaxView using XMLHttpRequest. See the following figure.

AjaxView Console
Getting the Results
Enough logging, now let us see the analyzed results of the logs by opening new tab in FireFox and type http://fakeurl.com/?&AJAXVIEWREQUEST=GET=main.html. This is a fake URL for getting analyzed reports from AjaxView proxy. A two column page will appear. The left side contains the following links:
Our focus in on JS Performance Statistics.
JS Performance Statistics
When clicking on JS Performance Statistics link, JavaScript related performance statistics will appear on the right side. The result is in a three column tabular, with following items:
In my blog web site, http://fakeurl.com//PerformancePolicy/PerformancePolicy/1646706643?&AJAXVIEWREQUEST=LMINFO shows slowest performance of 164 milliseconds. By clicking the file displays another tabular results which contains number of JavaScript functions in the selected page. Meantime (ms) for the function at http://udooz.net/blog/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.2.6 actually shows lowest performance function with line and column details. Here, it is 164 millisecond. By clicking this shows the actual code.
Comparison with IE Development ToolBar Profiler
Let us verify the results with IE Development ToolBar’s JavaScript profiler. The profiler shows the same set of functions with correct count details also. But it varies in the time. The highest maximum time was 109.38 taken by three functions.




Forces
SolutionWe are doing performance engineering of our web based product and now we are more concentrated on client side performance improvements. With the help of available toolset like Fiddler, IE Development Toolbar and some others, it is possible to tweak the code points based on download time and size of the critical ASPX pages. In addition to this, We would like to know the browser rendering or loading time of a behavior, however none of the tools do not provide such clarity. IE Development Toolbar enables to profile JavaScript but in an ad-hoc manner. I was googled various places, and failed to get such tool. I finished my journey at Microsoft Research where I found a tool called “AjaxView”, which enables to inject instrumentation code such as performance profiling, infinite loop detection, etc on the fly even in the production environment by the following nature of web applications:
Thanks to Emre Kiciman and Benjamin Livshits at Microsoft Research for implementing this great tool.
How Does It Works
AjaxView sits between the web server and clients, acts as server-side proxy. It intercepts and rewrites the JavaScript code generated from the web server for a web request by a client. It does not affect the production (or development) environment. See the following figure.

AjaxView Platform

AjaxView Components
AjaxView supports the following broad categories of instrumentation policies:
Let us see a practical walk-through on the next post for better understanding of this tool.
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