URL response time via curl

These stats are easily visible by any integrated HTTP sniffer available in the market like HttpWatch/Fiddler etc. for our popular web browser like Mozilla/IE. But if you need to do that quickly from command line, we can use cURL to do the same -

Determine response times of a URL with cURL:

# echo "`curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{time_starttransfer}-%{time_pretransfer}' http://m.com/`"|bc
.386

A bit deeper:

$curl -w '\nLookup time:\t%{time_namelookup}\nConnect time:\t%{time_connect}\nPreXfer time:\t%{time_pretransfer}\nStartXfer time:\t%{time_starttransfer}\n\nTotal time:\t%{time_total}\n' -o /dev/null -s http://mysite.com/

Lookup time: 2.221
Connect time: 2.541
PreXfer time: 2.589
StartXfer time: 2.862

Total time: 3.587


To get the amount of time between when a connection is established and when the data actually begins to be transferred:

$echo "`curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{time_starttransfer}-%{time_pretransfer}' http://mysite.com/`"|bc
.281


Hope it helps!

-DEBAJIT