: You could always do it manually. Just save the current time in your boostrap and then log the difference at the end of page output. From there, you'll be able to plot live graphs to visualize

@Shanna517

You could always do it manually. Just save the current time in your boostrap and then log the difference at the end of page output. From there, you'll be able to plot live graphs to visualize the performance of pages you're interested in.

Or if you want an online service, here's a free one I just found called mon.itor.us. Offsite solutions like this will take network conditions into account as well.

If you want a comparison with popular websites, this page lists the rendering times of a bunch of major sites. However, I find their figures a little suspect, since they display a lower time to load a full page on some sites than just to load the HTML.

Along with that site, Pingdom also offers a paid uptime/response time monitoring service. Additionally, Pingdom has a free plan that only lets you monitor one site (I think they mean page) and have up to 20 sms alerts per month.

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