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

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

<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