Analysing Page Download

[PetrolTed]

If I've got a page that pulls in various elements from different servers, is there a tools that shows what a browser is trying to download at any particular point.

e.g. if a page is slow to load, how can I determine which element is slowing it up?

[Plotloss]

Could create a browser from the HTML OCX and insert debug messages?

I dont know if there is a product that exposes what IE is doing...

[greenv8s]

You can see what documents IE is downloading via the ProgressChange, BeforeNavigate, NavigateComplete, NavigateError event hooks in the IE COM interface, this won't go down to the level of individual resources (GIFs etc) although it may be possible to find out about these via other hooks.

[FunkyGibbon]

Microsoft's Web Stress Tool can help here.

www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/intranet/downloads/webstres.mspx

It can give you stats on each object in a download.

Drop me an email if you want a sample report, or indeed if you want me to test a specfic page for you.

FG

[TheGroover]

There's a tool called HTTPWatch which does this, we use it at work. I don't know how much it is mind ...