Visualizing Web Page Serve Performance Using WebRockit

WebRockit uses a headless web browser to measure how fast web pages load, relative to what a real user might experience. WebRockit also captures interesting metrics about the page load (time to first byte, number of assets, size of response, time to onDomReady, etc) and can draw time-series graphs using that data. WebRockit combines the scalability of Sensu, the accessibility of Graphite, and is backed by the reliability of WebKit (PhantomJS).

WebRockit is written mostly in Ruby and makes use of Node for the headless browser, and is %100 REST API driven. In this session we'll describe why measuring page serve performance is important, describe the components of the WebRockit stack, show off the dashboard (Oooh, ahhh!), and go over the basics of the API.  WebRockit is MIT licensed and all of the source is publicly available on github.