[Fiber] Adjust the suspensey image/css timeout based on already elapsed time #34478
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…basis for timeouts If some has already elapsed we should wait less.
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… them all in time anyway (#34481) Stacked on #34478. In general we don't like to deal with timeouts in suspense world. We've had that in the past but in general it doesn't work well because if you have a timeout and then give up you made everything wait longer for no benefit at the end. That's why the recommendation is to remove a Suspense boundary if you expect it to be fast and add one if you expect it to be slow. You have to estimate as the developer. Suspensey images suffer from this same problem. We want to apply suspensey images to as much as possible so that it's the default to avoid flashing because if just a few images flash it's still almost as bad as all of them. However, we do know that it's also very common to use images and on a slow connection or many images, it's not worth it so we have the timeout to eventually give up. However, this means that in cases that are always slow or connections that are always slow, you're always punished for no reason. Suspensey images is mainly a polish feature to make high end experiences on high end connections better but we don't want to unnecessarily punish all slow connections in the process or things like lots of images below the viewport. This PR adds an estimate for whether or not we'll likely be able to load all the images within the timeout on a high end enough connection. If not, we'll still do a short suspend (unless we've already exceeded the wait time adjusted for #34478) to allow loading from cache if available. This estimate is based on two heuristics: 1) We compute an estimated bandwidth available on the current device in mbps. This is computed from performance entries that have loaded static resources already on the site. E.g. this can be other images, css, or scripts. We see how long they took. If we don't have any entries (or if they're all cross-origin in Safari) we fallback to `navigator.connection.downlink` in Chrome or a 5mbps default in Firefox/Safari. 2) To estimate how many bytes we'll have to download we use the width/height props of the img tag if available (or a 100 pixel default) times the device pixel ratio. We assume that a good img implementation downloads proper resolution image for the device and defines a width/height up front to avoid layout trash. Then we estimate that it takes about 0.25 bytes per pixel which is somewhat conservative estimate. This is somewhat conservative given that the image could've been preloaded and be better compressed. So it really only kicks in for high end connections that are known to load fast. In a follow up, we can add an additional wait for View Transitions that does the same estimate but only for the images that turn out to be in viewport.
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…ed time (#34478) Currently suspensey images doesn't account for how long we've already been waiting. This means that you can for example wait for 300ms for the throttle + 500ms for the images. If a Transition takes a while to complete you can also wait that time + an additional 500ms for the images. This tracks the start time of a Transition so that we can count the timeout starting from when the user interacted or when the last fallback committed (which is where the 300ms throttle is computed from). Creating a single timeline. This also moves the timeout to a central place which I'll use in a follow up. DiffTrain build for [e3f1918](e3f1918)
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…ed time (#34478) Currently suspensey images doesn't account for how long we've already been waiting. This means that you can for example wait for 300ms for the throttle + 500ms for the images. If a Transition takes a while to complete you can also wait that time + an additional 500ms for the images. This tracks the start time of a Transition so that we can count the timeout starting from when the user interacted or when the last fallback committed (which is where the 300ms throttle is computed from). Creating a single timeline. This also moves the timeout to a central place which I'll use in a follow up. DiffTrain build for [e3f1918](e3f1918)
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… them all in time anyway (#34481) Stacked on #34478. In general we don't like to deal with timeouts in suspense world. We've had that in the past but in general it doesn't work well because if you have a timeout and then give up you made everything wait longer for no benefit at the end. That's why the recommendation is to remove a Suspense boundary if you expect it to be fast and add one if you expect it to be slow. You have to estimate as the developer. Suspensey images suffer from this same problem. We want to apply suspensey images to as much as possible so that it's the default to avoid flashing because if just a few images flash it's still almost as bad as all of them. However, we do know that it's also very common to use images and on a slow connection or many images, it's not worth it so we have the timeout to eventually give up. However, this means that in cases that are always slow or connections that are always slow, you're always punished for no reason. Suspensey images is mainly a polish feature to make high end experiences on high end connections better but we don't want to unnecessarily punish all slow connections in the process or things like lots of images below the viewport. This PR adds an estimate for whether or not we'll likely be able to load all the images within the timeout on a high end enough connection. If not, we'll still do a short suspend (unless we've already exceeded the wait time adjusted for #34478) to allow loading from cache if available. This estimate is based on two heuristics: 1) We compute an estimated bandwidth available on the current device in mbps. This is computed from performance entries that have loaded static resources already on the site. E.g. this can be other images, css, or scripts. We see how long they took. If we don't have any entries (or if they're all cross-origin in Safari) we fallback to `navigator.connection.downlink` in Chrome or a 5mbps default in Firefox/Safari. 2) To estimate how many bytes we'll have to download we use the width/height props of the img tag if available (or a 100 pixel default) times the device pixel ratio. We assume that a good img implementation downloads proper resolution image for the device and defines a width/height up front to avoid layout trash. Then we estimate that it takes about 0.25 bytes per pixel which is somewhat conservative estimate. This is somewhat conservative given that the image could've been preloaded and be better compressed. So it really only kicks in for high end connections that are known to load fast. In a follow up, we can add an additional wait for View Transitions that does the same estimate but only for the images that turn out to be in viewport. DiffTrain build for [ae22247](ae22247)
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… them all in time anyway (#34481) Stacked on #34478. In general we don't like to deal with timeouts in suspense world. We've had that in the past but in general it doesn't work well because if you have a timeout and then give up you made everything wait longer for no benefit at the end. That's why the recommendation is to remove a Suspense boundary if you expect it to be fast and add one if you expect it to be slow. You have to estimate as the developer. Suspensey images suffer from this same problem. We want to apply suspensey images to as much as possible so that it's the default to avoid flashing because if just a few images flash it's still almost as bad as all of them. However, we do know that it's also very common to use images and on a slow connection or many images, it's not worth it so we have the timeout to eventually give up. However, this means that in cases that are always slow or connections that are always slow, you're always punished for no reason. Suspensey images is mainly a polish feature to make high end experiences on high end connections better but we don't want to unnecessarily punish all slow connections in the process or things like lots of images below the viewport. This PR adds an estimate for whether or not we'll likely be able to load all the images within the timeout on a high end enough connection. If not, we'll still do a short suspend (unless we've already exceeded the wait time adjusted for #34478) to allow loading from cache if available. This estimate is based on two heuristics: 1) We compute an estimated bandwidth available on the current device in mbps. This is computed from performance entries that have loaded static resources already on the site. E.g. this can be other images, css, or scripts. We see how long they took. If we don't have any entries (or if they're all cross-origin in Safari) we fallback to `navigator.connection.downlink` in Chrome or a 5mbps default in Firefox/Safari. 2) To estimate how many bytes we'll have to download we use the width/height props of the img tag if available (or a 100 pixel default) times the device pixel ratio. We assume that a good img implementation downloads proper resolution image for the device and defines a width/height up front to avoid layout trash. Then we estimate that it takes about 0.25 bytes per pixel which is somewhat conservative estimate. This is somewhat conservative given that the image could've been preloaded and be better compressed. So it really only kicks in for high end connections that are known to load fast. In a follow up, we can add an additional wait for View Transitions that does the same estimate but only for the images that turn out to be in viewport. DiffTrain build for [ae22247](ae22247)
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Currently suspensey images doesn't account for how long we've already been waiting. This means that you can for example wait for 300ms for the throttle + 500ms for the images. If a Transition takes a while to complete you can also wait that time + an additional 500ms for the images.
This tracks the start time of a Transition so that we can count the timeout starting from when the user interacted or when the last fallback committed (which is where the 300ms throttle is computed from). Creating a single timeline.
This also moves the timeout to a central place which I'll use in a follow up.