WBench

WBench is a tool that uses the HTML5 performance timing API to benchmark end user load times for websites. It simulates users visiting your website for the first time, with nothing of your site cached.

Installation

You can install the latest stable gem by running:

$ gem install wbench

If you're running an older version (1.8) of ruby, you'll need the JSON gem.

$ gem install json

You will need to install Google Chrome as well as the chromedriver utility. You can install chromedriver (on OSX) with homebrew:

brew install chromedriver

Alternatively you can install firefox and use it with wbench. See Running other browsers for more info.

Usage

Command Line

Simply enter the URL of a website you want to benchmark. The site will be loaded in the Chrome browser 10 times.

wbench https://www.desktoppr.co/

Running other browsers

Chrome is the default browser that is used. You can also use firefox by specifying it on the command line.

wbench -b firefox https://www.desktoppr.co/

Setting the user agent

You can also pass the -u/--user-agent option to change the browsers user agent (This can be useful for mobile testing).

wbench -u "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; ..." https://www.desktoppr.co/

Ruby API

You can programatically run the benchmarks. Simply specify the URL and optionally the amount of runs.

require 'wbench'

results = WBench::Benchmark.run('https://www.desktoppr.co/', :loops => 3, :browser => :chrome) # => WBench::Results

results.app_server # =>
  [25, 24, 24]

results.browser # =>
  {"navigationStart"=>[0, 0, 0], "fetchStart"=>[0, 0, 0],
  "domainLookupStart"=>[0, 0, 0], "domainLookupEnd"=>[0, 0, 0],
  "connectStart"=>[12, 12, 11], "connectEnd"=>[609, 612, 599],
  "secureConnectionStart"=>[197, 195, 194], "requestStart"=>[609, 612, 599],
  "responseStart"=>[829, 858, 821], "responseEnd"=>[1025, 1053, 1013],
  "domLoading"=>[1028, 1055, 1016], "domInteractive"=>[1549, 1183, 1136],
  "domContentLoadedEventStart"=>[1549, 1183, 1136],
  "domContentLoadedEventEnd"=>[1549, 1184, 1137], "domComplete"=>[2042, 1712,
  1663], "loadEventStart"=>[2042, 1712, 1663], "loadEventEnd"=>[2057, 1730,
  1680]}

results.latency # =>
  {"a.desktopprassets.com"=>[352, 15, 15],
  "beacon-1.newrelic.com"=>[587, 235, 248],
  "d1ros97qkrwjf5.cloudfront.net"=>[368, 14, 14],
  "ssl.google-analytics.com"=>[497, 14, 14], "www.desktoppr.co"=>[191, 210, 203]}

Gisting results

You can install the Github gist gem and pipe in the results of wbench

gem install gist

wbench http://www.google.com.au/ | gist -d "Google homepage"