Possible to run WPT as a private instance without a subscription?

WebPageTest
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Hi,

looking to see if I can run WPT as a private instance on a Ubuntu laptop inside of Docker without a paid subscription. I would like to capture the LCP data and other browsing metrics. I am doing this to try to test out link conditions out in the wild and did not want other traffic on the link besides the browsing tests.

I am not sure if using the API keys requires additional live calls during the testing. I am really trying to minimize other traffic and don’t know how “heavy” any of the API calls might be.

Appreciate your help on this.

thank you,

'mark

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Yes, but both the server and agents need to be running in your private environment. Any API keys you use in a private instance are API keys you generate in settings/keys.ini on the server (and are unrelated to the API keys for the public instance).

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Thank you Patrick. That’s very helpful. In your opinion, would WPT be a good way to evaluation link performance for UX purposes? This would be done by testing different link optimizations, conditions, etc. for satellite-based systems?

'mark