Chrome URL Registration Dwell Time Test

📋 Test Instructions:

  1. Open Chrome DevTools → Network tab → Check "Preserve log"
  2. Click a test button below
  3. IMMEDIATELY switch to another tab after clicking (critical!)
  4. Wait 10 seconds, then switch back
  5. Check Chrome History (chrome://history/) → Search for "127.0.0.1:8000/hop"
  6. Count how many hop URLs appear in history

Test 1: 0ms Dwell Time (Instant Redirect)

Meta refresh with 0 second delay - instant redirect.

Test 2: 500ms Dwell Time

Meta refresh with 0.5 second delay.

Test 3: 1000ms Dwell Time

Meta refresh with 1 second delay.

Test 4: 1500ms Dwell Time

Meta refresh with 1.5 second delay (finding the threshold).

Test 5: 2000ms Dwell Time

Meta refresh with 2 second delay (current plan).

🎯 Test 6: 5-Hop Background Tab Test (2000ms each)

Automatic background test - Opens in unfocused tab, completes 5 hops, shows results.

🚀 Test 7: 20-Hop Extreme Test (2000ms each)

Find the throttling limit! - 20 hops × 2s = 40 seconds total.

macOS Chrome: All 20 hops work! ✅
Windows/Linux Chrome: May throttle after 10s (needs testing)

🔥 Test 8: 50-Hop EXTREME Test (2000ms each)

Ultimate stress test! - 50 hops × 2s = 100 seconds (1.67 minutes).

✅ Confirmed working on iOS Chrome (all 50 hops registered!)
✅ Confirmed working on macOS Chrome (20+ hops tested)

🎯 Test 9: Full Relay Flow (10 hops with /pass + /r)

Real architecture test! - Relay → /pass → /r → JIT shim → next relay

Tests complete flow: Hop → meta refresh → /pass (instant redirect) → /r (JIT shim) → next hop
This simulates the actual production relay network architecture!

🚀 Test 10: 100-Hop EXTREME Full Relay Test

Ultimate stress test with real Instagram shimming! - 100 hops × 2s = 200 seconds (3.33 minutes)

Complete production flow with real Instagram shim URLs!
Each hop: relay page → /pass → /r → Instagram shim → next relay

Test 11: 45-Iframe Backlink Multiplier (Parallel)

Real backlink multiplier test! - 1 page load = 45 real backlink URLs loaded in hidden iframes.

Loads 45 real backlinks from thefrankjuice.com unfilter campaign
Result: All 45 HTTP requests fire, but 0 history entries

Test 12: Sequential Relay + Iframe Backlink (2s dwell)

Best of both worlds? - Parent meta-refreshes every 2s (history entry), each step loads a backlink in a visible iframe.

Each step: parent page meta-refreshes (2s) → next parent page + iframe loads backlink
Expected: 45 history entries (relay pages) + 45 backlink HTTP requests
Total time: 45 × 2s = 90 seconds

Test 13: Prerender Bounce Test (4s dwell)

Speculation Rules API test! — Each hop prerenders a same-origin bounce page (which meta-refreshes to target after 2s). Tests if prerendered page can navigate cross-origin via meta-refresh.

What to check:
1. DevTools → Network tab: look for prerender requests to target URL
2. DevTools → Application → Speculative Loads: check prerender status
3. DevTools → Console: speculation rules support logs
4. chrome://history/ → search for target URL
5. Final page → check if activationStart > 0 (confirms prerender activated)

Test 14: Multi-Target Prerender (different pages per hop)

Site-level Chrome signal boost! — Each hop prerenders a different page on the target domain (page-1, page-2, ...). Tests whether we can boost ChromeInTotal across multiple target pages.

What to check:
1. Network tab: look for prerender requests to /page-1, /page-2, etc.
2. Application → Speculative Loads: multiple target pages listed
3. chrome://history/ → search for target domain — do multiple pages appear?
4. Each hop prerenders a unique page, potentially boosting site-level Chrome views

Test 6: Random 100-500ms Chain

5 hops with randomized 100-500ms dwell times.

Test log will appear here...