testresponsetimes.py

import timeit
import math
import sys
import socket

repeat = 10
url = 'http://m.guardian.co.uk'
ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3'

if len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[1] > 0:
    repeat = int(sys.argv[1])
if len(sys.argv) > 2:
    url = sys.argv[2]

print 'Getting %s response times' % repeat
print '--------------------------'

t = timeit.Timer("h.request('%s',headers={'cache-control':'no-cache', 'User-Agent': '%s'})" % (url, ua),"from httplib2 import Http; h=Http()")
times = t.repeat(repeat,1)
times.sort()

agg = reduce(lambda a,b: a+b, times) / len(times)
print 'Average: %ss' % agg

med =  times[len(times)/2]
print '   50%%: %ss' % med

nth = times[int(math.floor(len(times) * 0.6))]
print '   60%%: %ss' % nth

nth = times[int(math.floor(len(times) * 0.7))]
print '   70%%: %ss' % nth

nth = times[int(math.floor(len(times) * 0.8))]
print '   80%%: %ss' % nth

nth = times[int(math.floor(len(times) * 0.9))]
print '   90%%: %ss' % nth

nth = times[len(times) - 1]
print '  100%%: %ss' % nth