[UPHPU] analyzing load time

[Richard K Miller]

I heard a podcast in July about an open source project developed at  
WhitePages.com that reports back how long your pages take to load on  
your users' browsers, and is said to add little overhead.

audio: http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4064.html
video: http://blip.tv/file/1018527

http://code.google.com/p/jiffy-web/

Richard













On Sep 2, 2009, at 8:29 PM, William Attwood wrote:

> Thanks for bringing this up, I have a slightly similar request-- Is  
> there a
> tool or system one can use that will report back a pages load time?
>
> I'd like to setup timed checks that will report back total load time  
> for all
> elements on a single page.  This would be the same load time a visitor
> encounters.
>
> Is there a easy to implement remote system?
>
> -Will
>
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Richard K Miller
> <richardkmiller at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Dan, you probably want Yahoo's YSlow or Google's Page Speed. If you
>> think it's images, or a number of other front-end issues, a code
>> profiler probably won't help you.
>>
>> http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
>> http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/
>>
>> YSlow was created by Steve Souders, who now works for Google. He  
>> spoke
>> at Google I/O this year about website performance and his talk is
>> available on YouTube:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/events/io/sessions/EvenFasterWebsites.html
>> http://stevesouders.com/ (other videos and posts)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sep 2, 2009, at 7:44 PM, thin wrote:
>>
>>> There's an excellent bit in the firebug [firefox] plugin that is  
>>> good
>>> for analyzing various element load times. it doesn't specifically do
>>> php, but it'll tell you about various ajax call load times and
>>> elements [eg: images] too. might be a good place for you to do some
>>> sniffing.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Daniel C.<dcrookston at gmail.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>> A friend of mine has a site (written in PHP with lots and LOTS of
>>>> Ajax) that's loading slowly.  What are some good ways to find out  
>>>> why
>>>> it's loading slowly and then speed it up?  I suspect it's mostly
>>>> images (he's got several images that are being scaled by the  
>>>> browser)
>>>> but I'd like to check for less-obvious problems with a code  
>>>> profiler,
>>>> if there are any decent ones available for PHP.
>>>>