[Wtr-general] What does IE.down_load_time really measure?

[Paul Carvalho]

Hmm, okay, so it looks like there are two interesting sub-measures then.
>From a user's perspective, a web page's "response time" would equal
down_load_time + render time.

How much faith should we put in the IE.down_load_time attribute if it
doesn't include the render time?  I mean, I *watched* the Home page take ~ 1
second to load in the IE browser, so I really don't believe that it took
0.015 seconds to download to the user.

I think I'm going to keep the extra column in my output file for now and
plot both lines on the charts for comparison.

Thanks for checking this, Chris.  (I've tried sifting through the
watir.rbfile but it's still mostly Greek to me... and I'm not Greek.
;))

Cheers.  Paul.


On 10/01/07, Chris McMahon <christopher.mcmahon at gmail.com> wrote:
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> @down_load_time = Time.now - start_load_time
> in def wait
> line 1519/1476 in watir.rb in 1.5.1127.
> :)
>
>
> difference is probably render time
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