Page loading speed is very important now a days. If you are a web administrator, or a server administrator who is particularly responsible for organizing the things together, then you have to make it a point that users don’t get disappointed while accessing your site – so there is really need for speed
curl -s -w 'Testing Website Response Time for :%{url_effective}\n\nLookup Time:\t\t%{time_namelookup}\nConnect Time:\t\t%{time_connect}\nPre-transfer Time:\t%{time_pretransfer}\nStart-transfer Time:\t%{time_starttransfer}\n\nTotal Time:\t\t%{time_total}\n' -o /dev/null http://www.google.com
Output for Google.
Testing Website Response Time for :http://www.google.com/
Lookup Time: 0.004151
Connect Time: 0.079221
Pre-transfer Time: 0.079257
Start-transfer Time: 0.199834
Total Time: 0.274493
Output for Stackbees
Testing Website Response Time for :http://stackbees.co
Lookup Time: 0.004197
Connect Time: 0.174173
Pre-transfer Time: 0.174238
Start-transfer Time: 0.346720
Total Time: 0.346767