How Can I Measure Page Load via Omniture SiteCatalyst
This is one issue that I faced at a previous employer where he wanted to know, for each given page, how much time it took to load. This was an issue that took some time to figure out but I did come up with a solution:The only way I think to do something like this is by having two image requests on the page, one right after the opening body tag and one right before the closing body tag. You would also need two custom events, for example event1 = “start page load” and event2 = “end page load”, on the first image request, right below the opening body tag, the “start page load” event would be passed. On the image request right before the closing body tag, the “end page load” event would be passed.Then the number of people who let the entire page load can be determined from the “end page load” event, while the number of people who stop the page somewhere before 100% could be determined through a calculated metric of “start page load” – “end page load”.So for example, if there were 100 instances of the “start page load” event, but only 40 instances of the “end page load” event. This would mean that 60 people (100 – 40) would have stopped the page loading before it was completed.You can also leverage the getTimeToComplete plugin that will give the actual time it took for the two specified events.
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Dorian D. Regester
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Dorian,Why would simply taking a timestamp at the top of the page and a second at the bottom and sending in the difference at the bottom of the page not provide the required data?Does the double-event method not mean that s_code.js must load first and the that load time ignored since the “start page load” event would fire thereafter?This would at least be a problem on landing pages assuming caching kicks in thereafter.Brian Katz – Analytics – VKI
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