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[nycphp-talk] [Slightly OT] Profiling Site Response Time

Nasir Zubair nasir81 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 16 21:06:29 EST 2008


Will try cURL and see how it works.

Just browsed through Selenium's site. Interesting concept. I will see how
involved the setup is and would it even be worth the effort.

Thanks for the suggestions.

- Nasir

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Brent Baisley <brenttech at gmail.com> wrote:

> You can try using some unix utilities like wget to do timings. PHP has CURL
> commands you can use to automate some testings. There are also testing
> tools, like Selenium, you can use on any computer to do automated testing.
>
> Brent
>
> On Dec 16, 2008, at 7:21 PM, Nasir Zubair wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Can anyone suggest an offline program or utility to profile response time
> for an intranet website during various visits.
>
> I'm trying troubleshooting a peculiar problem with one of our intranet
> websites in IE6. The site is not fully functional in non-IE browsers (IE6
> being the company standard). On the first visit to site for the day, the
> site takes good 30-45 seconds to respond, any subsequent visits are under 1
> sec, as expected. After some general testing (cache, cookies, etc.) I am
> fairly confident that the workstation configuration are not a problem. The
> issue can be reproduced on a number of workstations using a number of
> different NT accounts. For every account, the slow down is only once, during
> the initial visit.
>
> I have been looking for various tools to profile the site response and have
> consistently been running into the following issues:
>
> 1. the site is on an intranet, inaccessible from the internet, which rules
> out all the online tools.
> 2. the site is using SSL, which caused Fiddler (
> http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/) and couple of other utilities to skip
> it altogether.
>
> I am not the developer of the site in question, but since I'm given the
> task of troubleshooting the issue, I want to back up my obvious conclusions
> with some numbers.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> - Nasir
>
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