website or webserver performance

[surdzz]

A tool for measuring website or webserver performance.

I have googled this a lot, but coudnt find any tool to do this. I just want to compare different web hosting providers, their download times on my machine, and on my connection. this should check the total time taken to query the database, download, and display/render a dynamic.static webpage.

May be a simple utility in browser that says, took 23.5 secs to load this page from the time you submitted the URL.

Any idea on this..? or any other way i can check load speeds..?

[teiz77]

A tool for measuring website or webserver performance.

I have googled this a lot, but coudnt find any tool to do this. I just want to compare different web hosting providers, their download times on my machine, and on my connection. this should check the total time taken to query the database, download, and display/render a dynamic.static webpage.

May be a simple utility in browser that says, took 23.5 secs to load this page from the time you submitted the URL.

Any idea on this..? or any other way i can check load speeds..?

are you using a server side language? You coluld use it to calculate the page load time. If your using php, check this page http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/function.microtime.php

[surdzz]

well, the utility above probably gives the time taken for server to deliver against browser query. It might not register the time taken to tranbsfer the info across internet and rendering time of browser etc..

All i need is a utility which prob runs off browser and tells me the exact time taken for the browser from the click of 'go' to the 'Done' status. This wud be independant of any language/script etc..

[Hans Kilian]

If you have access to a *nix box you can do
time wget http://example.com/url.html

That will only get the main HTML file though, and not any images, CSS files or anything else referred to in the file.

I also tried looking for a Firefox extension to do the timing, but couldn't find one.