848360 - telemetry for http ssl

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, enhancement)

Description

[Patrick McManus [:mcmanus]]

we have some basic information on ssl performance, but we don't actually know how much of the web is being carried over ssl.

I suspect its low and I think we should make it a goal to raise that number. To do that we need to track it.

This patch gathers telemetry for the ratio of pageloads and transactions carried over ssl.

Comment 1

[Patrick McManus [:mcmanus]]

Attachment: patch 0

Comment 2

[Honza Bambas (:mayhemer)]

Do we have some "total number" of page loads/transactions to get the actual ssl percentage?  If so, where is that probe?

Comment 3

[Patrick McManus [:mcmanus]]

(In reply to Honza Bambas (:mayhemer) from comment #2)
> Do we have some "total number" of page loads/transactions to get the actual
> ssl percentage?  If so, where is that probe?

its a boolean - just add true and false.

Comment 4

[Honza Bambas (:mayhemer)]

(In reply to Patrick McManus [:mcmanus] from comment #3)
> (In reply to Honza Bambas (:mayhemer) from comment #2)
> > Do we have some "total number" of page loads/transactions to get the actual
> > ssl percentage?  If so, where is that probe?
> 
> its a boolean - just add true and false.

I know, but what are you going to compare to?  How will you be able to say "15% of page loads are ssl" ?

Comment 5

[Honza Bambas (:mayhemer)]

(In reply to Honza Bambas (:mayhemer) from comment #4)
> I know, but what are you going to compare to?  How will you be able to say
> "15% of page loads are ssl" ?

Ah! you are not storing "true" only when the load is ssl, but you store value of UsingSSL() ALWAYS, good.  God it :)

Comment 6

[(PTO May 7-12) Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c49bc3600303

Comment 7

[Patrick McManus [:mcmanus]]

a week's worth of data here shows 78% of page loads (and 74% of transactions) are plaintext HTTP.