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Yes, that is what I want to look at. The real resource impact of starting the browser, looking at a website and closing the browser. Using an in-browser tool to
by mg 5y ago
Yes, that is what I want to look at. The real resource impact of starting the browser, looking at a website and closing the browser. Using an in-browser tool to measure that would be like asking a robber how much they stole.
- cmeacham98 5y agoMost people don't close and open their browser between page visits, so time spend opening/closing the browser is a magnitude of importance less than time spent loading the page. I'd rather have a browser that takes 10secs to start and 0.1secs to render a page than 2sec to start and 1sec for each page render. Additionally, timing externally like this ends up indirectly measuring unrelated metrics like the speed of your DNS server and internet download speed. I've seen people with particularly shoddy ISP DNS experience a 0.5-1sec swing in page load times after the DNS entry gets cached.
- mg 5y agoI think DNS speed will not impact the "user" and "sys" values of time. Only the "real" value. I think user+sys give the amount of CPU time used, not impacted by wait time.