I am trying to get value TTFB and Connect value
c := exec.Command(
"curl", "-w",
"Connect: %{time_connect} TTFB: %{time_starttransfer} Total time: %{time_total}",
"-o",
"/dev/null",
"http://my.domain/favicon.ico")
cID, err := c.Run()
fmt.Printf("%s", cID)
It prints a sting like
Connect: 0.205 TTFB: 0.353 Total time: 0.354
However, I need only the value of TTFB , Connect, Total time
value in golang variable.
Also, Is there any way I can get the values without specifically using curl?
There's builtin support for this since Go 1.7. Go 1.7 added HTTP Tracing, read blog post: Introducing HTTP Tracing
You can specify callback functions which get called at the appropriate phases / points when making an HTTP(S) request. You can specify your callback functions by creating a value of httptrace.ClientTrace
, and "arm" it using httptrace.WithClientTrace()
.
Here's an example function which gets a URL param, and prints the timing of getting it:
func timeGet(url string) {
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
var start, connect, dns, tlsHandshake time.Time
trace := &httptrace.ClientTrace{
DNSStart: func(dsi httptrace.DNSStartInfo) { dns = time.Now() },
DNSDone: func(ddi httptrace.DNSDoneInfo) {
fmt.Printf("DNS Done: %v\n", time.Since(dns))
},
TLSHandshakeStart: func() { tlsHandshake = time.Now() },
TLSHandshakeDone: func(cs tls.ConnectionState, err error) {
fmt.Printf("TLS Handshake: %v\n", time.Since(tlsHandshake))
},
ConnectStart: func(network, addr string) { connect = time.Now() },
ConnectDone: func(network, addr string, err error) {
fmt.Printf("Connect time: %v\n", time.Since(connect))
},
GotFirstResponseByte: func() {
fmt.Printf("Time from start to first byte: %v\n", time.Since(start))
},
}
req = req.WithContext(httptrace.WithClientTrace(req.Context(), trace))
start = time.Now()
if _, err := http.DefaultTransport.RoundTrip(req); err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
fmt.Printf("Total time: %v\n", time.Since(start))
}
Example calling it:
timeGet("https://google.com")
Example output:
DNS Done: 7.998465ms
Connect time: 12.677085ms
TLS Handshake: 128.65394ms
Time from start to first byte: 176.461087ms
Total time: 176.723402ms
Also be sure to check out github.com/davecheney/httpstat which gives you a CLI utility that also uses the httptracing
package under the hood.