http-request-stats

cURL your way to request stats - a helpful command to isolate request bottlenecks.

Timing Report

curl -w "@timing_report_template.txt" -o /dev/null -s http://www.google.com

• -w "@timing_report_template.txt" point to the report template
• -o /dev/null send the response output to /dev/null
• -s use silent mode
• http://www.google.com the URL to request

The output will look something like this:

time_namelookup: 0.006
time_connect: 0.016
time_appconnect: 0.000
time_pretransfer: 0.016
time_redirect: 0.000
time_starttransfer: 0.029
-----------------
time_total: 0.029

Full Report

Need more info? This command dumps all that cURL will report on.

curl -w "@full_report_template.txt" -o /dev/null -s http://www.google.com

Output:

remote_ip: 184.150.183.114
remote_port: 80
content_type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
http_code: 302
size_download: 258
size_header: 213
size_request: 78
size_upload: 0
speed_download: 9262.000
speed_upload: 0.000
redirect_url: http://www.google.ca/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=dLHZVoWZHquC8Qevna6gDw
url_effective: http://www.google.com/
num_connects: 1
num_redirects: 0
ssl_verify_result: 0

time_appconnect: 0.000
time_connect: 0.021
time_namelookup: 0.013
time_pretransfer: 0.021
time_redirect: 0.000
time_starttransfer: 0.028
==========================
time_total: 0.028