Web-site performance is a crucial factor to succeeding in the Web business. According to a research conducted by Microsoft, 500msec slowdown in Bing causes their revenue go down by 1.2%.
Wpbench collects the following metrics required for tuning the performance. The primary goal of performance tuning will be to minimize first-paint time, so that the visitors to the web site can start working on the destination page as early as possible, and the second goal will be the load time.
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| unload | timing when the browser switches to the destination page; the new page will be blank until |
| first-paint | timing when some content of the destination page is rendered by the web browser |
| DOMContentLoaded | timing when the entire HTML is laid out |
| load | timing when all the downloads are complete |
It is known to work with: Chrome, Firefox, Safari.
- upload wpbench.html to your web-site
- open the uploaded HTML
- enter the path of the web-page you want to take the benchmark
- hit the start button