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I'm about to start trialling optimisations on my web application (apache & tomcat). My main interest right now is:

  • The total page size (including external js files such as jquery)
  • The number of GETs per page

I'd like to setup a systematic way of measuring the consequences of the various changes I make over time.

Are there any tools that are useful for recording a sequence of page hits, playing this back (as I change the config) and record the size of each page ? Ideally I'd like something that can make work with a continuous integration server such as Continuum.

Question also opened on http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/6902/track-page-size-of-web-app-for-performance

Rgds, Kevin.

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You might want to try this question at Pro Webmaster Stack Exchange. – Gilles Dec 19 '10 at 18:58
@Mehper - Hi, what is the purpose of removing the full stop from the question title? Is this a format standard at superuser? – Kevin Dec 19 '10 at 23:52
Full stop is not used in headlines. This format is the standard not only for Super User, but also for the headlines in other documents, books, newspapers, etc. – Mehper C. Palavuzlar Dec 20 '10 at 7:31
@Gilles - thanks, I've opened question there: webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/6902/… – Kevin Dec 20 '10 at 14:37
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I have found this Web Page Analyzer service useful from time to time. It's free and gives you pretty detailed info about the page such as total size, number of requests and more.

It even gives you a few hints for speeding up the page if it finds any issues.

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Many web-browsers have "Web developer" add-on or plug-in tools that are useful for this.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60/

http://code.google.com/chrome/devtools/

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