Website speed benchmarking with command line

command_line_website_benchmarking.sh

# time how long it takes to load your website 100 times and save it to "non_cached.txt"
for i in {1..100}
do 
  time (curl http://www.yourwebsite.com > /dev/null 2> /dev/null) 2>> non_cached.txt
done
 
# Set up caching or whatever performance tweaks you need, then run it again (saving to different file)
for i in {1..100}
do 
  time (curl http://www.yourwebsite.com > /dev/null 2> /dev/null) 2>> cached.txt
done
 
# save the following to ./get_averages.sh and run like:  ./get_averages.sh cached.txt real
# first argument is the filename and the second is either "real", "user", or "sys".
 
#!/bin/bash
cat $1 | sed 's/0m\(.....\)/0m \1 /' | awk "/$2/ { sum += \$3; num+=1 } END { print \"$2 average = \", sum/num }"

apache bench?

yes, ab would have been far superior. I didn't have it on that system at the time.