selenium-profiler

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What is it?Selenium-profiler is a web/http profiler built with Selenium-RC and Python. It profiles page load time and network traffic for a web page. The profiler uses Selenium-RC to automate site navigation (via browser), proxy traffic, and sniff the proxy for network traffic stats as requests pass through during a page load.

It is useful to answer questions like:

how many http requests does that page make? how fast are the http responses coming back? which http status codes are returned? how many of each object type are requested? what is the total page load time?

License:GNU GPL v3
This program is Free Open Source software

Contents:web_profiler.py : main profiler program selenium.py : Selenium-RC Python client driver selenium-server.jar : Selenium server (a java based server) How do you use it?Install Python (and add it to your path) Install Java (and add it to your path) Get selenium-profiler code from Subversion Unzip Selenium RC and search for 'selenium-server.jar' and 'selenium.py' Copy them to a directory and run 'java -jar selenium-server.jar' to start the server Open web_profiler.py and set your parameters Run web_profiler.py *notes:
you may need to adjust browser security settings to get it to work properly
to run against an HTTPS/SSL enabled site, you need to install a fake certificate. look inside selenium-server.jar for the cert.

Command Line Parameters:web_profiler.py takes 2 command line arguments:

web_profiler.py [browser_launcher]

Sample usage:

> python web_profiler.py www.google.com *firefox

(use *firefox to launch Mozilla Firefox)
(use *iexplore or *iexploreproxy to launch Internet Explorer)
(use *googlechrome to launch Google Chrome)

Browsers/Platforms:This profiler seems to run best under MS Windows with either Firefox or IE. I have tested under various combinations with mixed success:

Working:

Firefox 3.5 / Windows XP Firefox 3.5 / Windows Server 2008 Internet Explorer 8 / Windows XP Internet Explorer 8 / Windows Server 2008 Google Chrome 4 / Windows XP

Partially Working:

Firefox 3.0 / Ubuntu Linux 9.04

Sample Output:--------------------------------
results for http://www.google.com/

content size: 31.096 kb

http requests: 7
status 200: 6
status 204: 1

profiler timing:
0.344 secs (page load)
0.328 secs (network: end last request)
0.110 secs (network: end first request)

file extensions: (count, size)
gif: 1, 3.011 kb
ico: 1, 1.150 kb
js: 2, 18.083 kb
png: 1, 5.401 kb
unknown: 2, 3.451 kb

http timing detail: (status, method, doc, size, time)
204, GET, /generate_204, 0, 62 ms
200, GET, /favicon.ico, 1150, 31 ms
200, GET, /barcode09.gif, 3011, 31 ms
200, GET, /, 3451, 110 ms
200, GET, /2cca7b2e99206b9c.js, 3451, 78 ms
200, GET, /nav_logo7.png, 5401, 16 ms
200, GET, /f_wkquEsVv8.js, 14632, 47 ms
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