172360 - Done load time gone

Status: CLOSED INVALID

(Core :: Networking, enhancement)

Description

[Mats Åhlberg]

I was to test a page loadtime and i found that the Done in the status bar was gone.

This is quite annoying since i have used it often last time i was to optimize
some asp pages for my company.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

The "Done" actually remains, but any indication of *time* was removed as part of
fix for bug 48436.

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

I would suggest you use a external tool for page loadtime (for example wget can
do that AFAIK). I think this won't be change again, but you can try :-)

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> Networking

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Since the load time had nothing to do with reality anyway (eg didn't include
background images, didn't include alternate stylesheets, etc, etc), I'm not sure
restoring it is worthwhile.

Comment 5

[Mats Åhlberg]

Since the loadtime does not include allt that stuff it is a excellent
measurement of how log the server takes to create the pure html page from
asp,php. Is it possible to add this as an option perhaps hidden in the prefs file?
It made an excellent testing tool in finding bad code in asp pages. i actually
fixed several pages so they went from about 350 ms to about 200 thus reducing
the server load. It actually was quite precise after about 2 reloads of the page
and i could reproduce the results.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> excellent measurement of how log the server takes to create the pure html page

Of course not.  For one thing, the load time _does_ include non-alternate
stylesheets, inline images, scripts, etc.  It may start sometimes including
background images as we modify that architecture.

So I agree that it would be possible to give _a_ time and that time may even
roughly correlate with the server effort required... or it may not.

One possibility for testing, of course, is to save the current date at load
start, look at the current date in onload() and get the time in ms.  That will
be pretty much equivalent to Mozilla's load time guess...

Comment 7

[Mats Åhlberg]

Ok. I will keep an old version of mozilla to use for this.

Comment 8

[Mats Åhlberg]

Closing :) first time i close a bug whooo!