Some persons shared useful ideas how to improve Lightbeam on Gitlab and this release contains these improvements.
You can now filter the first parties by choosing different options in a new sidebar. These options affect which first party websites are shown. So if you decide to show only 50 websites this means that Lightbeam shows only 50 first party websites. Because first parties may contain a different number of third parties the graph could contain much more than 50 nodes. It would be technically possible to limit the nodes to a specific number but this would cost more performance, so I decided not to do so.
The drawing of the graph is an ressouce-intense process. If you recorded many websites it could even be that Lightbeam crashes. That’s why Lightbeam now shows a warning when there are more than 200 nodes.
Additionally to these changes there are more features. With the newest version it is possible to import data that you exported before. This is not only helpful to make testing of Lightbeam easier. It also gives you the opportunity to prepare some special cases that you can just import at every time and show to other people.
And there are other little changes:
- Data can also be saved in a fused version.
- Export contains metadata (e.g. version of Lightbeam used to export the data).
- Only “real” third parties are shown (before also URLs like abc.domain.de were shown as third parties when they were called from domain.de although they aren’t third parties in this case).
- The tooltip shows the number of requests.
