Detect Download Time of URL

I'd like to be able to detect if a website is fast loading

[xxclixxx]

I run an advertising website and am looking to build a script that checks the load time of a website. Sorta like the services that let you check your website for errors, only simpler and automatic.

I know how to grab the contents of a page and check that, but I'm looking to also include load time for all the other silly stuff on websites. Images, javascripts, applets, etc.

Got any suggestions?

[barns101]

I may be misunderstanding you, but if it's your website, why not just check your logs?

[xxclixxx]

What I mean is I want to check the websites people are advertising. So if you added your site to mine, then mine would see how big the page you added is.

Some people add websites that just have a ton of images and frames and all that, I want a way to check the file size of the page AND the content it loads.. I'm not sure how to go about the content loading part.

[whoisgregg]

You'll need to parse the page for the image paths, css paths, and javascript paths. Then you'll need to download all of those to get their size and download speed.

[barns101]

I see! By "load time" you mean how long it takes to load, not what time of day it loaded, as I incorrectly assumed! ;)