Ajax Girl

Our own Michael Mahemoff has created WebWait. We will let him take it from here:

I wanted a portable, consistent, way to
benchmark Ajax web apps, that would show how long the wait is (though
it’s useful for any app, especially if there were a lot of images, for
instance). Using a
command-line tool like curl is an improper simulation and doesn’t cut it
as a
proper simulation. WebWait has the following benefits:

• Runs in a browser. You get actual load times in the same client
  web users
  are running, not simulated times.
• Runs in multiple browsers. There are plugins that do this, but as
  well as
  the installation overhead, they are usually specific to one browser.
  With
  WebWait, you can just cut-and-paste the same URL into different
  browsers. (No
  Safari yet as it doesn’t listen to iframe onload ???.)
• Respects your cookies and authentication - If you can access a
  URL in a web
  page, you can benchmark it with WebWait. Trying to set up cookies for
  use
  with a command-line tool like Curl is hard work. Doing it with a
  plugin is
  usually impossible. Doing it with a third-party website is dangerously
  insecure.

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Quick feature list as it stands right now:

• Basic functionality: Type a URL, see how long it takes to load.
• Option: Set the delay between calls. WebWait will call the website
  multiple times and provide an average load time.
• Option: Set the number of calls before ceasing activity.
• Ability to pause.
• Partially transparent lightbox eye candy.
• Unique URLs -
  it’s Ajax, but that shouldn’t stop you from bookmarking and sending URLs
  with details of the website being tested. Incidentally, implementing
  this rare but highly useful feature took three lines of Javascript.

Have fun. Any comments/suggestions, please let me know!

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Source: Ajaxian
Original Article: http://ajaxian.com/archives/webwait-time-your-ajax-apps