Re: UKNM: problems measuring site speed

[Marcus Austin]

talk to bryan cobley at Netbasics (0113 246 0009) this is how they do part 

of the web testing for us, and are now making it in to a product.


marcus


At 11:24 12/04/99 , you wrote:

>I am looking for a way to measure the comparative speed of our web 

>pages.  What

>I am looking for is something beyond simple stat analysis and SNMP stats, and

>have in mind the following:  Company gives you a page to put on your website

>somewhere, and then they download it at different times of the day, and 

>compare

>this with downloads of the same page from other peoples sites.  All I have to

>go on is that our SNMP stats currently show that our connection is saturated,

>which is rather a crude estimate of speed problems.  If anyone has  any

>contacts or comments/better ideas I would be really interested to hear them.

>

>Cheers

>

>Chas

>

>--

>Charles Linn

>Web Producer

>Friends of the Earth

>http://www.foe.co.uk

>0171 490 1555


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