Re: {bb} Measure Latency in Web Sites

[Jeff Stoner <leapfrog@freeshell.org>]

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Rich Lichvar wrote:

> Is there any way to measure/show latency using BB Win32 for a web site?
> We have one particular web site that for some reason, usually about once
> a day, has an especially slow latency time when connecting to the
> backend machine where content (product catalogs) for the web site is
> stored. We're trying to track down where/how this is happening and just
> wondering if BB might help

Possibly. Off the top of my head, you might be able to use the 'ab' 
program that comes with Apache to perform mini-benchmarks to see how the 
site is responding.

A better way would be to use Perl's LWP and build a custom User-Agent, 
coupled with Time::HiRes to time HTTP requests. This would probably be the 
better approach as you have complete control over what gets requested, 
what gets timed and how to report it.

--Jeff
Phoenix-bound

"Give blood."
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