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Re: calculating page load up time using Wireshark


From: asad <a.alii85 () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 21:40:57 +0500

So, this means with HTTP 1.1 its no longer stateless in that sense as
browser does keep some form of "connection".

Laura in her WCNA , book mentioned the same technique, I have to find out
which version of HTTP was her example written for.

I have workaround it like manually, as the wireshark is "ON" i keep a look
on website page, as soon it loaded (which i check load-status icon at end
of address bar) I close wireshark, then i see more accurate results.

But then I see that for complete page-load up perhaps the main index page
is visible but at background there are other content e.g css,.theme files
that are being downloaded from external sources (that are not visible on UI
itself).

So, logically is it "ok" to close the wireshark as soon as the browser
ended up loading the page. Thanks.

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 7:34 PM, T B <phreakocious () gmail com> wrote:

This is going to be tricky, especially with HTTP 1.1 connections, as the
browser could hold the connection open after the last element has been
loaded.  It would be better to look for the last client ACK of a packet
containing data, but I don't know of an easy way to get that level of
specificity in a filter.

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 2:59 AM, asad <a.alii85 () gmail com> wrote:

Hello,

I'm using wireshark to calculate the page load up time for a website. I'm
comparing the results from other online tools such as "
http://www.webpagetest.org"; and see the results don't tally.

My capture filters is:

"dst host 1.1.1.1 or src host 1.1.1.1"

Further, my capture filter is

"!(tcp.flags.reset == 1) && !(tcp.flags.fin == 1)"

I'm looking at page load up time through the following UI "statistics ->
summary" and time between first and last packet.

Differences in coming in seconds not ms between online test and wireshark
test done from my computer. I'm using wireless NIC card.

Is there a way to tweak the param's on wireshark to bring more close to
real results.

regards
asad


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