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Magnum_IP
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Jul 26, 2011

Trouble calculating web page load time

I have been posed a problem to log the load time for requested web pages.     I am quite far down the line but have hit a problem.     I thought the iRule would be fairly easy to write - a...
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Hamish
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Jul 28, 2011
Ask the browser... There's extensions in some browsers (Chrome and Safari IIRC do this) that will allow the detection and (Accurate and consistent) reporting of page load times.

 

 

Failing that use firebug on firefox, or httpwatch... But without a lot of help from the browser itself, you have NO idea how long it takes a browser to load a page. (Because you need to consider rendering time, and take into account the fact that you'll have multiple connections as you've found out and that also connections are left open for 'a while' after they've been finished with.

 

 

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