#!/usr/bin/env node // Browser render benchmark for notevi web pages: drives headless Chrome over CDP // (no npm deps; node >= 22 for native WebSocket). Serves the site dir, loads // each page N times, reports parse/paint/load timings, node count, and the // cost of jumping to the bottom of the file. // // node bench-browser.mjs SITE_DIR PAGE [PAGE...] [--shot DIR] import { spawn } from "node:child_process"; import { createReadStream, existsSync, mkdirSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs"; import http from "node:http"; import path from "node:path"; import { tmpdir } from "node:os"; const CHROME = "/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome"; const RUNS = 3; const args = process.argv.slice(2); const shotIdx = args.indexOf("--shot"); let shotDir = null; if (shotIdx >= 0) { shotDir = args[shotIdx + 1]; args.splice(shotIdx, 2); mkdirSync(shotDir, { recursive: true }); } const [siteDir, ...pages] = args; if (!siteDir || pages.length === 0) { console.error("usage: node bench-browser.mjs SITE_DIR PAGE [PAGE...] [--shot DIR]"); process.exit(2); } // ── tiny static server ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── const types = { html: "text/html", css: "text/css", js: "text/javascript" }; const server = http.createServer((req, res) => { const file = path.join(siteDir, decodeURIComponent(new URL(req.url, "http://x").pathname)); if (!existsSync(file)) { res.writeHead(404).end(); return; } res.writeHead(200, { "content-type": types[path.extname(file).slice(1)] ?? "text/plain" }); createReadStream(file).pipe(res); }); await new Promise(r => server.listen(0, r)); const port = server.address().port; // ── chrome + CDP ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── const profile = path.join(tmpdir(), "notevi-bench-profile"); const chrome = spawn(CHROME, [ "--headless=new", "--remote-debugging-port=0", `--user-data-dir=${profile}`, "--no-first-run", "--disable-extensions", "--window-size=1600,1000", "about:blank", ], { stdio: ["ignore", "ignore", "pipe"] }); const wsUrl = await new Promise((resolve, reject) => { let buf = ""; chrome.stderr.on("data", d => { buf += d; const m = buf.match(/DevTools listening on (ws:\/\/\S+)/); if (m) resolve(m[1]); }); chrome.on("exit", () => reject(new Error("chrome exited"))); }); const debugPort = new URL(wsUrl).port; const targets = await (await fetch(`http://127.0.0.1:${debugPort}/json/list`)).json(); const pageTarget = targets.find(t => t.type === "page"); const ws = new WebSocket(pageTarget.webSocketDebuggerUrl); await new Promise(r => (ws.onopen = r)); let msgId = 0; const pending = new Map(); const eventWaiters = new Map(); ws.onmessage = e => { const msg = JSON.parse(e.data); if (msg.id && pending.has(msg.id)) { pending.get(msg.id)(msg); pending.delete(msg.id); } if (msg.method && eventWaiters.has(msg.method)) { eventWaiters.get(msg.method)(msg.params); eventWaiters.delete(msg.method); } }; const cdp = (method, params = {}) => new Promise(resolve => { const id = ++msgId; pending.set(id, m => resolve(m.result)); ws.send(JSON.stringify({ id, method, params })); }); const waitEvent = method => new Promise(r => eventWaiters.set(method, r)); const evaluate = async expr => { const r = await cdp("Runtime.evaluate", { expression: expr, returnByValue: true, awaitPromise: true }); return r.result?.value; }; await cdp("Page.enable"); await cdp("Runtime.enable"); const median = a => [...a].sort((x, y) => x - y)[a.length >> 1]; console.log("page kB nodes parse FCP DCL load toBottom"); for (const p of pages) { const url = `http://127.0.0.1:${port}/${p}`; const runs = []; for (let i = 0; i < RUNS; i++) { const loaded = waitEvent("Page.loadEventFired"); await cdp("Page.navigate", { url }); await loaded; const m = await evaluate(`(async () => { await new Promise(r => requestAnimationFrame(() => requestAnimationFrame(r))); const nav = performance.getEntriesByType("navigation")[0]; const fcp = performance.getEntriesByType("paint").find(e => e.name === "first-contentful-paint"); const t0 = performance.now(); window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight); await new Promise(r => requestAnimationFrame(() => requestAnimationFrame(r))); const toBottom = performance.now() - t0; return JSON.stringify({ kb: Math.round(nav.transferSize / 1024), nodes: document.getElementsByTagName("*").length, parse: Math.round(nav.domInteractive), fcp: Math.round(fcp?.startTime ?? -1), dcl: Math.round(nav.domContentLoadedEventEnd), load: Math.round(nav.loadEventEnd), toBottom: Math.round(toBottom), }); })()`); runs.push(JSON.parse(m)); } const med = k => median(runs.map(r => r[k])); console.log( p.padEnd(38) + String(med("kb")).padStart(6) + String(med("nodes")).padStart(8) + String(med("parse")).padStart(9) + String(med("fcp")).padStart(8) + String(med("dcl")).padStart(8) + String(med("load")).padStart(8) + String(med("toBottom")).padStart(10)); if (shotDir) { await evaluate(`window.scrollTo(0, 0)`); await evaluate(`new Promise(r => requestAnimationFrame(() => requestAnimationFrame(r)))`); const shot = await cdp("Page.captureScreenshot", { format: "png" }); writeFileSync(path.join(shotDir, p.replaceAll("/", "_") + ".png"), Buffer.from(shot.data, "base64")); } } chrome.kill(); server.close(); process.exit(0);