Determine web page draw time via a program

Posted by Kevin Burke on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Kevin Burke
Published on 2012-03-21T05:14:44Z Indexed on 2012/03/21 5:40 UTC
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Google Chrome has a nice tool to determine the time the page begins drawing, in the Network tab in Developer Tools. Similarly sites like webpagetest.org can tell you the draw time and give you the whole waterfall of page loads for a given web page.

I was wondering if I could automate the process of finding the time it took to the first page draw, for all of the pages on my site, so I can share this data within my company. Obviously the page draw time will depend on the latency and throughput of your connection, but I'm more concerned with the relative data about pages on our site. Can I get this data from Selenium or another tool?

Thanks, Kevin

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