The Victorian Library
Within these digital pages you shall find the complete public domain texts of the great works of the Victorian era and beyond — tales of mystery penned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, scientific romances of H.G. Wells, extraordinary voyages of Jules Verne, and gothic horrors from Stoker, Shelley, and Stevenson — each with a chapter-by-chapter reading view alongside the raw text.
Each text, image, and asset serves double duty as cacheable content for CDN performance evaluation.
⚙ Cache Testing Inventory
This website contains content optimised to exercise CDN caching:
- 500 HTML pages — literary articles & chapters
- 50 Victorian-themed images (50 KB – 5 MB)
- 20 detailed Victorian SVG illustrations
- 13 complete public-domain literary texts with chapter readers
- Real H.264/AAC sample videos (range-request streaming)
- Valid tar.gz/zip archives with SHA-256 checksums
- API endpoints (cache bypass)
⚡ Performance Metrics
Calibrating the instruments…
Metrics measured via the Navigation Timing API at load.
📦 Cache Inventory
| Asset | Location | Type | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demo Video 1 | /videos/demo-video-1.mp4 | MP4 | H.264/AAC, 1280x720, 30s |
| Demo Video 2 | /videos/demo-video-2.mp4 | MP4 | H.264/AAC, 1920x1080, 45s |
| Library Pack 1 | /texts/library-pack-1.txt | TXT | Concatenated full-text corpus |
| Library Pack 2 | /texts/library-pack-2.txt | TXT | Concatenated full-text corpus (2x) |
| Archive 1 | /assets/blob/archive-1.tar.gz | TAR.GZ | Valid gzip archive + SHA256SUMS |
| Archive 2 | /assets/blob/archive-2.zip | ZIP | Valid zip archive + SHA256SUMS |
Videos are real playable H.264/AAC MP4 files (HTML5 <video> + HTTP Range support). Archives are genuine tar.gz/zip files containing the text/image corpus with SHA-256 checksums.
📚 Public Domain Literature Shelf
| Cover & Work | Author | Full Text | Read Online |
|---|---|---|---|
 A Study in Scarlet | Arthur Conan Doyle | raw .txt | Read → |
 The Hound of the Baskervilles | Arthur Conan Doyle | raw .txt | Read → |
 The Speckled Band | Arthur Conan Doyle | raw .txt | Read → |
 The Time Machine | H.G. Wells | raw .txt | Read → |
 The War of the Worlds | H.G. Wells | raw .txt | Read → |
 The Invisible Man | H.G. Wells | raw .txt | Read → |
 Twenty Thousand Leagues | Jules Verne | raw .txt | Read → |
 Around the World in 80 Days | Jules Verne | raw .txt | Read → |
 Dracula | Bram Stoker | raw .txt | Read → |
 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | R.L. Stevenson | raw .txt | Read → |
 The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | raw .txt | Read → |
 Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | raw .txt | Read → |
 The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Edgar Allan Poe | raw .txt | Read → |
"Read Online" opens a chapter-by-chapter HTML reader with table of contents and navigation; "raw .txt" is the complete downloadable public-domain text.
📜 Authors of the Victorian Library
The writers whose mysteries, scientific romances, adventures, and Gothic tales form this public-domain collection.
🖼 The Gallery of Curios
A collection of Victorian-themed test images for CDN cache evaluation.
221B Baker St
A scene from the cobblestoned streets of Victorian London, where gaslight flickers and fog rolls in from the Thames.
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The Strand
A scene from the cobblestoned streets of Victorian London, where gaslight flickers and fog rolls in from the Thames.
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Gaslight
A scene from the cobblestoned streets of Victorian London, where gaslight flickers and fog rolls in from the Thames.
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Fog & Mystery
A scene from the cobblestoned streets of Victorian London, where gaslight flickers and fog rolls in from the Thames.
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Scotland Yard
A scene from the cobblestoned streets of Victorian London, where gaslight flickers and fog rolls in from the Thames.
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The Diogenes Club
A scene from the cobblestoned streets of Victorian London, where gaslight flickers and fog rolls in from the Thames.
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Reichenbach
A scene from the cobblestoned streets of Victorian London, where gaslight flickers and fog rolls in from the Thames.
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The Moor
A scene from the cobblestoned streets of Victorian London, where gaslight flickers and fog rolls in from the Thames.
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Bohemia
A scene from the cobblestoned streets of Victorian London, where gaslight flickers and fog rolls in from the Thames.
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Red-Headed League
A scene from the cobblestoned streets of Victorian London, where gaslight flickers and fog rolls in from the Thames.
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Baskerville Hall
A scene from the cobblestoned streets of Victorian London, where gaslight flickers and fog rolls in from the Thames.
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The Cedars
A scene from the cobblestoned streets of Victorian London, where gaslight flickers and fog rolls in from the Thames.
Enter →🖌 Illustrated Plates (SVG)
Twenty detailed Victorian-themed vector illustrations — open directly in the browser or embed inline.
🔍 Test Scenarios
- Sample Literary Article — Cache-Control: public, max-age=3600
- Test Image (221B Baker St) — Cache-Control: public, max-age=2592000
- Test SVG Illustration — Cache-Control: public, max-age=2592000
- A Study in Scarlet (chapter reader) — Cache-Control: public, max-age=86400
- Sample H.264/AAC video — Cache-Control: public, max-age=2592000, Accept-Ranges: bytes
- Sample tar.gz archive — Cache-Control: public, max-age=2592000
- Dynamic API endpoint — Cache-Control: no-store