Web QoE refers to the Quality of Experience of interactive services that are based on the HTTP protocol and are accessed via a browser. The most prominent application examples of this category are surfing (or browsing) the web, downloading files and handling e-mails. As concerns Web surfing (including usage of Web-based Cloud services), it has been widely recognized that speed and fluidity of the browsing experience is a key determinant of QoE. These quality features have been shown to depend on a number of factors, particularly on QoS parameters of the underlying network. Especially large packet delay and/or low bandwidth are well known to cause long loading times of objects causing unacceptable completion times of page views.
However, while a number of studies targeting this topic have been conducted and related testing methodologies standardized (e.g. ITU-T P.1501), there is a lack of publicly available experimental Web browsing QoE data. The dataset downloadable from this page addresses this issue by providing results from a subjective lab study which quantified the impact of limited bandwidth on Web browsing QoE.
The data is based on a subjective lab experiment in which participants (N=32) had to browse four different websites at different network speeds resulting in different levels of experienced responsiveness. The websites were different in terms of technical complexity (number of objects, etc.) and genre (encyclopedia, cooking community, news portal, travel portal).
For the web browsing test conditions, test subjects experienced different maximum network downlink bandwidth settings (32-1024 kbit/s). In each condition, a browser session with the corresponding website was initiated and users asked to perform a certain browsing scenario on a Windows notebook. After each condition, subjects were asked to rate their overall quality experience (on a 9-point ACR scale) as well as other aspects like overall acceptability. This test methodology conforms with ITU-T Rec. P.1501.
R. Schatz and S. Egger. "An Annotated Dataset for Web Browsing QoE". In: 6th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), September 18-20, Singapore, 2014.
Celtic Project QuEEN (Quality of Experience Estimators in Networks). Link.
By downloading the test content from the download link I accept the terms of the copyright and licensing conditions stated below.
Web Browsing QoE Test Dataset Download Link
Web Browsing QoE Test Dataset V 1.0 is licensed under Creative Commons (see below).
The use of this dataset in any kind of work (project, publication, etc.) must be attributed as:
R. Schatz and S. Egger, An Annotated Dataset for Web Browsing QoE. In: 6th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), September 18-20, Singapore, 2014.
Web Browsing QoE Test Dataset V 1.0 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.