Measuring IPFS
Yiannis Psaras
About this talk
In this short lightning talk at IPFS þing 2023, Yiannis Psaras introduces ProbeLab's data-driven approach to protocol design and optimization for IPFS. He presents probelab.io as a contextualized collection of measurement plots — including DHT lookup latency across multiple geographic regions — published alongside experiment descriptions and links to the GitHub repositories of the underlying tooling. He also describes weekly network health snapshots that compare time-to-first-byte for a curated set of websites loaded via Kubo versus HTTP, noting that IPFS frequently outperforms HTTP thanks to content addressing and universal caching. Current measurement focus is on the public IPFS DHT, Bitswap, and Hydras, with plans to consolidate everything under stats.ipfs.network and to extend coverage to additional content-routing subsystems in collaboration with other protocol teams.