https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488270
The goal is to provide an info for web developers that can be used to
analyze page load performance. This info should be composed from detailed
timings for each network request made by the monitored page.
The ideal timing info (for each request) should describe following
phases:
DNS Lookup: DNS Resolution time
Connecting: time required to create a TCP connection.
Blocking: time spent in a queue waiting for a network connection.
Sending: time required to send HTTP request.
Waiting: waiting for a response from the server.
Receiving: time required to read entire response from the server (and/
or time required to read from cache). In case of partial cache read it should
be possible to measure both times.
See also a preceding discussion here:
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platform/browse_thread/thread/af2d7784bdc33b34/d33c075c89716826?hl=en#d33c075c89716826