Measure website load time with Python requests

Question

I\'m trying to build a tool for testing the delay of my internet connection, more specifically web site load times. I thought of using the python requests module for the loa

Answer 1

As for your question, it should be the total time for

1. time to create the request object
2. Send request
3. Receive response
4. Parse response (See comment from Thomas Orozco )

Other ways to measure a single request load time is to use urllib:

nf = urllib.urlopen(url)
start = time.time()
page = nf.read()
end = time.time()
nf.close()
# end - start gives you the page load time

Answer 2

There is such functionality in latest version of requests:

https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/?highlight=elapsed#requests.Response.elapsed

For example:

requests.get("http://127.0.0.1").elapsed.total_seconds()