From this brilliant blog post... https://josephscott.org/archives/2011/10/timing-details-with-curl/ found at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18215389/how-do-i-measure-request-and-response-times-at-once-using-curl
cURL supports formatted output for the details of the request (see the cURL manpage for details, under -w, –write-out ). For our purposes we’ll focus just on the timing details that are provided.
###Prepwork
Create .curl
directory in your home folder: