Hi Sam, The metrics you are looking for are most influenced by client-side implementations and can even change from browser to browser, since it relies on he browser engine (css engine and javascript engine) and how the page was coded (CSS, animations, javascripts etc...).
A server under certain load may degrade page load time but a healthy server is no guarantee that the load page time is good. That's why tools like JMeter are not capable to measure those metrics per se. But you still should test your server under stress if you are looking for a good user experience. There are several tools I can recommend to you, and a google search would certainly bring others: During development: - you can rely on Chrome Developer Tools or Safari Web Developer tools. The Timeline panel will show you those metrics. - You can also use Yahoo's YSlow and Google's Page Speed. Both are free and will rank your website according to several common performance tips, indicating where you are failing and what could be done to improve. In pre-launch or post-launch you can use tools like: http://www.webpagetest.org/ http://loads.in/ http://gtmetrix.com/ http://pageload.monitis.com/ And in other to check how your browser is handled by multiple browser you can go with http://browsershots.org/. Hope those help you. Best regards, Eric 2013/6/6 nmq <[email protected]> > Hi everyone > > I have been told that JMeter does not measure page load or rendering time. > Does anyone know of a roundabout way of making approximations using JMeter, > which would be fairly close to actual times. > > Or if anyone knows of a better tool that can be used to achieve this? > > The AUT is a secured web portal giving access to a limited number of users > and is document intensive. I need to measure the page load time of the > Documents page which displays the first 100 documents and as the user > scrolls down, renders the next 100 and so forth. > > Any tips or help for load/performance testing would be appreciated. > > Thanks > Sam >
