Not Just A Random Blog

Some websites have how long it took to execute the website near the bottom of their pages. This can be entertaining, but it also servers another important purpose. I often use it to see if one of my pages is taking too long to load or hanging. To use this simple script, place this code at the top of your script:

<?php
function getCurTime()
    {
    $time = explode (' ',microtime());
    return(double) $time[0] + $time[1];
    }
$startTime = getCurTime();
?>

And this at the bottom of your script:

<?php
$endTime = getCurTime();
echo "Time to Execute = ".number_format(($endTime - $startTime),2)." seconds";
?>

You can change the “2″ in the number_format() function to however many decimal places you want. Below it is set to 6. If you notice your webpage taking too long to load, but not sure what piece is holding it up, you can move the script to the middle of the script or somewhere else and try to narrow it down that way.

Below is the same script but instead of measuring the execution time for the entire page, it just calculates the time it takes to execute the content of this blog post.

Time to Execute = 0.000017 seconds