Phantomjs loads pages slowly

Question

I\'m new into phantomjs, trying it on a standard centOS server (with httpd etc installed, but no modified settings apart from nameservers set to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4).

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Answer 1

Found it - seems like ipv6 was the culprit.

I disabled it temporarily by running the following:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6 
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/default/disable_ipv6

Testing confirms:

$ phantomjs phantomjs.js http://google.com
starting
Loading time 230 msec

Answer 2

Well, in my case, the page was waiting for some GET requests and was not able to reach the requests' server and it kept waiting for long. I could only figure it out when i used the remote debugger option.

phantomjs --remote-debugger-port=9000 loadspeed.js <some_url>

and inside the loadspeed.js file

page.onResourceRequested = function (req) {
    console.log('requested: ' + JSON.stringify(req, undefined, 4));
};

page.onResourceReceived = function (res) {
    console.log('received: ' + JSON.stringify(res, undefined, 4));
};

and then loading localhost:9000 in any webkit browser (safari/chrome) and seeing the console logs where i could figure out it was waiting for some failed requests for a long time.

TO BYPASS THIS - REDUCE THE TIMEOUT:

page.settings.resourceTimeout = 3000; //in secs

and things were very quick after that. Hope this helps