Checking loadspeed of a Site Using phantomjs

Using  phantomjs to check different parameters of a site.

 Installing the module
sudo yum install fontconfig freetype libfreetype.so.6 libfontconfig.so.1 libstdc++.so.6

wget https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-1.9.7-linux-i686.tar.bz2
tar jxvf phantomjs-1.9.7-linux-i686.tar.bz2
mv phantomjs-1.9.7-linux-x86_64 phantomjs

export PATH=$PATH:/root/phantomjs/bin/

In the  phantomjs directory there are examples for js script. We use a test script provided by them for checking the load speed of site. 

phantomjs loadspeed.js http://www.adminz.in

Page title is Linux Conquering Cloud

Loading time 4559 msec

Basic examples

• arguments.js shows the arguments passed to the script
• countdown.js prints a 10 second countdown
• echoToFile.js writes the command line arguments to a file
• fibo.js lists the first few numbers in the Fibonacci sequence
• hello.js displays the famous message
• module.js and universe.js demonstrate the use of module system
• outputEncoding.js displays a string in various encodings
• printenv.js displays the system's environment variables
• scandir.js lists all files in a directory and its subdirectories
• sleepsort.js sorts integers and delays display depending on their values
• version.js prints out PhantomJS version number
• page_events.js prints out page events firing: useful to better grasp page.on* callbacks

Rendering/rasterization

• colorwheel.js creates a color wheel using HTML5 canvas
• rasterize.js rasterizes a web page to image or PDF
• rendermultiurl.js renders multiple web pages to images
• technews.js captures Google News as a PNG image

Page automation

• direction.js uses Google Maps to print driving direction
• follow.js shows the number of followers of some Twitter accounts
• imagebin.js uploads an image to imagebin.org
• injectme.js injects itself into a web page context
• ipgeocode.js deduces the location via IP geocoding
• movies.js lists movies from kids-in-mind.com
• phantomwebintro.js uses jQuery to read #intro element text from phantomjs.org
• pizza.js uses yelp.com to find pizza places in Mountain View
• seasonfood.js displays the BBC seasonal food list
• tweets.js displays the most recent tweets
• unrandomize.js modifies a global object at page initialization
• waitfor.js waits until a test condition is true or a timeout occurs

Network

• detectsniff.js detects if a web page sniffs the user agent
• loadspeed.js computes the loading speed of a web site
• netlog.js dumps all network requests and responses
• netsniff.js captures network traffic in HAR format
• post.js sends an HTTP POST request to a test server
• postserver.js starts a web server and sends an HTTP POST request to it
• server.js starts a web server and sends an HTTP GET request to it
• serverkeepalive.js starts a web server which answers in plain text
• simpleserver.js starts a web server which answers in HTML