How do you do page performance tests?

Question

I know everyone who reads the question will think \"Firebug!\" right away. Maybe some will think \"YSlow!\" and \"Google Page Speed!\"

While I really like these tools, I

Answer 1

I don't pretend to know the absolute answer. But one method would be:

• use tools like wget to measure time in which a page is fetched
• use tools like firebug to measure overall speed
• difference gives you time taken by the browser

While this may not be a completely satisfactory answer, I will observe that this is the easiest.

By the way, what do you think are the performance aspects that you can highlight using a "browser level test" that you can't with a "firebug level test"?

Cheers,

jrh