WebTimer - Measures download times of web page resources.

Overview

Measures download times of a web page and all its resources, broken down by asset type (HTML/CSS/JS/IMG).

Installation

Install dependencies:

pip install webtimer

Usage

You can invoke the script either as a Python module:

from webtimer import WebTimer, CSS
wt = WebTimer(url=<url>)
wt.evaluate()
print wt.times_by_type[CSS]

or as a standalone command line script:

webtimer.py <url>

An example output would look like:

$ webtimer.py https://pypi.python.org/pypi/webtimer
Measuring 12 of 12 100.00%: /static/images/python-logo.png
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Download times by URL:
0.77 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/webtimer
1.09 http://pypi.python.org/static/css/pypi-screen.css
...
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Download times by asset type:
 0.77   5.46% HTML
 2.33  16.43% Image
11.07  78.12% CSS
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Total download seconds: 14.18

Note, to use it from the command line, you'll need to ensure it has execute permission and is located in your PATH. On most platforms, this should automatically be done by setup.py.