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compute load time stats for web page
import os
import sys
import json
import pprint
import argparse
import subprocess
"""
Reference: https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-question-of-timing/
Usage: python3 ttfb.py -u https://www.zasag.mn
{'proctime_server': 0.266721,
'tcp_handshake': 0.421435,
'time_appconnect': 1.302903,
'time_connect': 0.423711,
'time_namelookup': 0.002276,
'time_starttransfer': 1.991059,
'ttfb': 0.688156}
"""
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
description="compute Time To First Byte (TTFB) for a given page"
)
parser.add_argument("-u", "--url", type=str, help="url to compute TTFB")
args = parser.parse_args()
if not args.url:
os.system("python3 ttfb.py -h")
sys.exit(1)
result_raw = subprocess.run(
[
"curl",
"--no-sessionid",
"-w",
'{"time_appconnect": %{time_appconnect}, '
'"time_starttransfer": %{time_starttransfer}, '
'"time_namelookup": %{time_namelookup}, '
'"time_connect": %{time_connect}}',
"-H 'Cache-Control: no-cache'",
"-so",
"/dev/null",
args.url,
],
capture_output=True,
text=True,
)
result_dict = json.loads(result_raw.stdout)
result_dict["ttfb"] = result_dict["time_starttransfer"] - result_dict["time_appconnect"]
result_dict["tcp_handshake"] = (
result_dict["time_connect"] - result_dict["time_namelookup"]
)
result_dict["proctime_server"] = result_dict["ttfb"] - result_dict["tcp_handshake"]
pprint.pprint(result_dict)
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