Please improve the usability of the new Test History page

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Hi,

Since the visual refresh of that page, I’ve found that it is way less usable to me than the previous version.

  • The search term and period are not reflected in the URL. Two ways this affects me:
    • I can’t bookmark a search anymore.
    • When clicking on a result, pressing the back button will clear the search term and period. Because of this, I’ve learned to always open results in a new tab but from time to time, I’ll forget and this is quite annoying.
  • Type a search term then select a period: The search will not take the search term into account and clear the field. I have to remember to press Enter after typing the term.
  • The Run Date is a more important information than the User Email or API Key used. Yet, the Run date is the last column and invisible in a lot of viewports.
  • I seem to remember that we could see more characters of the tested URL in the previous version (but I’m a bit fuzzy on that). This is important because a lot of the early characters are shared between tests with the same protocol and domain.

Overall, I was a happy user of the previous version of this page and I wouldn’t mind if it returned in its previous form. Happy to provide more details if my explanations or use cases are unclear.

Thanks!

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Thanks, @Anthony! Agree with pretty much all of these. I’ll keep you posted.

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One more request: We can’t edit labels anymore.

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More coming, but updating you on a few improvements that were made here already.

Because of this, I’ve learned to always open results in a new tab but from time to time, I’ll forget and this is quite annoying.

For a quick stopgap, we now default to opening results in a new tab. Doesn’t solve the underlying issue, but hopefully makes it less painful in the meantime.

The Run Date is a more important information than the User Email or API Key used. Yet, the Run date is the last column and invisible in a lot of viewports.

This is now the second column, after only the URL.

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+1 for editing labels and/or showing more characters in the URL. My use case it to run two tests on the same URL and compare. Confusing without labels.

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