How to know response time of a website?

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Measuring ping latency of a server - Python

There are a few servers such as

http://server1.stackoverflow.com
http://server2.stackoverflow.com
http://server3.stackoverflow.com
http://server4.stackoverflow.com

and I want to know which links' response time is shortest at the moment. What should I do?

I am thinking about: timeit or ping the server.

I will be grateful if you could give me a sample or any idea, thank you. :)

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

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Why do you want to do this yourself? Usually app servers are running behind a load balancer that hopefully redirects your requests to the machine with the least amount of load...load balancing in this context- done by yourself - makes perhaps sense in a geographically distributed app server setup but not here with Stackoverflow servers. So your usecase is?

See also

Measuring ping latency of a server - Python

edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

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answered Aug 12 '12 at 10:17

It is a example, just think about you are going to choose a proxy server... – Anthony Lee Aug 12 '12 at 10:24

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 12 '12 at 10:27

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I am trying to google it for a half day, something like this?

url = ""

f = urllib.urlopen(url)
start = time.time()
page = f.read()
end = time.time()
f.close()

any better way?

answered Aug 12 '12 at 10:27

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 12 '12 at 10:34

you can use popen to execute ping command:

for example let's take the three nameservers of stackoverflow and ping them. Fastest one will be the one with lowest average time

import os
lis3=['64.34.119.33','64.34.119.34','69.59.196.217'] #nameservers of SO
lis2=[]
for x in lis3:
    strs=os.popen("ping "+x).read()
    #print strs
    time=strs[strs.rfind(' ')+1:strs.rfind('ms')]
    lis2.append(int(time))

minn=lis3[lis2.index(min(lis2))]
print 'lowest average time is from {0}'.format(minn)

output:

lowest average time is from 69.59.196.217

How to know response time of a website?

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