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[nycphp-talk] [Slightly OT] Profiling Site Response Time

Rolan Yang rolan at omnistep.com
Tue Dec 16 20:54:01 EST 2008


Nasir Zubair wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Can anyone suggest an offline program or utility to profile response 
> time for an intranet website during various visits.
>
> I'm trying troubleshooting a peculiar problem with one of our intranet 
> websites in IE6. The site is not fully functional in non-IE browsers 
> (IE6 being the company standard). On the first visit to site for the 
> day, the site takes good 30-45 seconds to respond, any subsequent 
> visits are under 1 sec, as expected. After some general testing 
> (cache, cookies, etc.) I am fairly confident that the workstation 
> configuration are not a problem. The issue can be reproduced on a 
> number of workstations using a number of different NT accounts. For 
> every account, the slow

The fact that it doesn't work with non-IE browsers is somewhat of a 
hurdle, but if it does with with Firefox, there is a nice plugin called 
Yslow that will profile your web pages and offer suggestions on how to 
optimize.

~Rolan



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