Disassembling Web Site Response Time

摘要

Web site latency can be measured by the response time to user requests. User perception of the responses is affected by psychological factors. This paper proposes a method, which combines client-side measurement, server-side measurement, and active probing methods in order to measure response time for accessing a Web site as well as disassemble the time into the three constituents, namely transmission, processing/generation, and displaying/rendering. This paper also discusses some of the factors that contribute to delay in downloading Web pages.