Data dump of HAR files

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Data dump of HAR files

[foolip]

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[joelpurra]

@foolip: thanks, had missed that link! I'll try and run the data through my analysis tools over the holidays.

[joelpurra]

Should mention that I released the thesis a few months ago -- all data (tables, graphs) is based on HAR files from over 600.000 web site visits captured by phantomjs. Check out the full pdf and the video from the presentation!

Swedes Online: You Are More Tracked Than You Think

http://joelpurra.com/projects/masters-thesis/

Abstract

When you are browsing websites, third-party resources record your online habits; such tracking can be considered an invasion of privacy. It was previously unknown how many third-party resources, trackers and tracker companies are present in the different classes of websites chosen: globally popular websites, random samples of .se/.dk/.com/.net domains and curated lists of websites of public interest in Sweden. The in-browser HTTP/HTTPS traffic was recorded while downloading over 150,000 websites, allowing comparison of HTTPS adaption and third-party tracking within and across the different classes of websites.
The data shows that known third-party resources including known trackers are present on over 90% of most classes, that third-party hosted content such as video, scripts and fonts make up a large portion of the known trackers seen on a typical website and that tracking is just as prevalent on secure as insecure sites.
Observations include that Google is the most widespread tracker organization by far, that content is being served by known trackers may suggest that trackers are moving to providing services to the end user to avoid being blocked by privacy tools and ad blockers, and that the small difference in tracking between using HTTP and HTTPS connections may suggest that users are given

What do you think of the results?

Although I didn't have time to download HAR files from here and run them through the analysis tool, it'd be fun to do. All tools are open source and I've also released some of the publicly available datasets =)