Re: [Bug-wget] Using wget to measure web response times?

[Keisial]

Giuseppe Scrivano writes:
> <address@hidden> writes
>> I have been using wget, together with 'time', with the following command 
>> line parameters:
>>
>> time wget --page-requisites --secure-protocol=SSLV3 --load-cookies 
>> cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies 
>> https://portal.foo.com/test/appmanager/portal/desktop
>>
>> However, when I do this, on the same environment where we see > 30 seconds 
>> response to a browser, I get 'real' response times from the 'time' command 
>> of 3-5 seconds.  That would SEEM to indicate that the browser is taking 28+ 
>> seconds to render the portal page.
>>
>> So I was wondering:  Is this a valid test and use of wget?  And, am I 
>> interpreting the test results correctly?
>>     
> Using wget do you get _exactly_ the same information that you get using
> the browser?
>
> Giuseppe
>   

Maybe the slow time is in getting some css/javascript/image file
included from the web page?