curl-ttfb.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Report time to first byte for the provided URL using a cache buster to ensure
# that we're measuring full cold-cache performance

while (($#)); do
    echo $1
    curl -so /dev/null -H "Pragma: no-cache" -H "Cache-Control: no-cache" \
        -w "%{http_code}\tPre-Transfer: %{time_pretransfer}\tStart Transfer: %{time_starttransfer}\tTotal: %{time_total}\tSize: %{size_download}\n" \
        "$1?`date +%s`"
    shift
done