The Google/yahoo site test tools and firebug are great for diagnosing site responsiveness issues too... On 20 Aug 2010 19:36, "Whit Blauvelt" <whit at transpect.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:46:19PM +0530, Agnello George wrote: >> Have a question , Suppose i had a client tell me that he can access the >> web page but it takes long time to view the pages the website is a >> static website ( suppose this website does not server dynamic data or >> does not connect to a database )... what would one check other than : > > Even a static site could contain complex pages, in terms of what it takes > the browser to render them. If the pages are complex in terms of css or > JavaScript content, or even nested tables, you might see a difference > running different browsers. Rendering speed varies widely between them. > > If it's not rendering, is it slow to everywhere, or just slow to your > client's system. What's their bandwidth? Are they behind a proxy? If you and > your client, on different connections, view the page at the same time with > the same browser, is it as slow for both of you? > > If the question is how fast the pages are being served, you could run tests > remotely with wget. It has all sorts of timing thresholds (check the man > page) which you could reduce until it starts failing. That could quantify > the speed of the server's response to your remote position on the network. > Or you could build a little script that writes a timestamp, runs wget with > its defaults, writes another timestamp, erases the local files wget just > pulled in, and repeats. Then the difference between starting and finishing > timestamps will show you how fast the page comes in, and whether the speed > is consistent over time. A bottleneck could be elsewhere than the server. > But if you ran this at multiple remote locations you could triangulate. > > Whit > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100820/03933eb5/attachment-0005.html>