How to gather network timing data with cUrl

cUrl documentation

Write the following lines into a text file and save as "ctemplate.txt"

\n
            time_namelookup:  %{time_namelookup}\n
               time_connect:  %{time_connect}\n
            time_appconnect:  %{time_appconnect}\n
           time_pretransfer:  %{time_pretransfer\}n
              time_redirect:  %{time_redirect}\n
         time_starttransfer:  %{time_starttransfer}\n
                            ----------\n
                 time_total:  %{time_total}\n
\n

Use the template with cUrl to display timing data:

'curl -w "@ctemplate.txt" -o /dev/null -s http://wordpress.com/'


Output should look something like this:

   time_namelookup:  0.001
      time_connect:  0.037
   time_appconnect:  0.000
  time_pretransfer:  0.037
     time_redirect:  0.000
time_starttransfer:  0.092
                   ----------
        time_total:  0.164


Alternatively you can place a file in your home directory with curl configuration: ~/.curlrc

write-out = "\n download_size: %{size_download}\n\n time_namelookup:  %{time_namelookup}\n time_connect:  %{time_connect}\n time_appconnect:  %{time_appconnect}\n time_pretransfer:  %{time_pretransfer}\n time_redirect:  %{time_redirect}\n time_starttransfer:  %{time_starttransfer}\n ----------\n time_total:  %{time_total}\n"
dump-header = -
output /dev/null