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Benchmark Website Response Times With CURL

We can gain insights when making requests to websites such as:

  • Lookup time
  • Connect time
  • AppCon time
  • Redirect time
  • PreXfer time
  • StartXfer time

We will make a request to a website that has caching enabled, the first hit will be a MISS:

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$ curl -s -w '\nLookup time:\t%{time_namelookup}\nConnect time:\t%{time_connect}\nAppCon time:\t%{time_appconnect}\nRedirect time:\t%{time_redirect}\nPreXfer time:\t%{time_pretransfer}\nStartXfer time:\t%{time_starttransfer}\n\nTotal time:\t%{time_total}\n' -o /dev/null https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/567298/53351889-85572000-392a-11e9-9720-464e9318206e.jpg

Lookup time:  1.524465
Connect time: 1.707561
AppCon time:  0.000000
Redirect time:    0.000000
PreXfer time: 1.707656
StartXfer time:   1.897660

Total time:   2.451824

The next hit will be a HIT:

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$ curl -s -w '\nLookup time:\t%{time_namelookup}\nConnect time:\t%{time_connect}\nAppCon time:\t%{time_appconnect}\nRedirect time:\t%{time_redirect}\nPreXfer time:\t%{time_pretransfer}\nStartXfer time:\t%{time_starttransfer}\n\nTotal time:\t%{time_total}\n' -o /dev/null https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/567298/53351889-85572000-392a-11e9-9720-464e9318206e.jpg

Lookup time:  0.004441
Connect time: 0.188065
AppCon time:  0.000000
Redirect time:    0.000000
PreXfer time: 0.188160
StartXfer time:   0.381344

Total time:   0.926420

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