Jul 16 2019 02:18 AM
I'm a newbe in PowerShell, so forgive me my ignorance. We discovered a PS script to measure the load time of SharePoint pages (Intranet home & other main pages). The script actually launches a browser (MSIE11 in particular) and records the time to fully load a page (stored within SP site collection).
The script instantiates a new object using -comobject. The script contained an example of how to instantiate and start MSIE, yet we would like to measure also load performance using other browsers (Chrome, Edge, FireFox, Safari, Opera, ...).
Is that possible and what would the corresponding value for -comobject?
Find below extract o/t script (bold-italic line > $ie = New-Object -comobject "InternetExplorer.Application" is the one to instantiate MSIE)
$urls = "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/", "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/Sites/newContoso"
$array = @()
$tim = Get-Date
write-host $tim
while($tim -lt $endDate)
{
# write-host "loop1"
foreach($url in $urls)
{
# write-host "loop2"
$ie = New-Object -comobject "InternetExplorer.Application"
$ie.visible = $true
$timein = Get-Date
$ie.navigate($url)
while ($ie.Busy -eq $true -or $ie.ReadyState -ne 4 -or $ie.document.IHTMLDocument3_getElementByID("O365_MainLink_Settings").readystate -ne "complete")
Jul 16 2019 09:58 AM
I'm afraid it's not that simple. Chrome and other browsers don't have COM interfaces, it's mainly Microsoft's products that offer this functionality. You have to use whichever automation method is used by the respective browser.
Jul 24 2019 08:24 AM - edited Jul 24 2019 12:25 PM
COM is Microsoft applications specific (mostly).
I recommend the following tools, although they're geared toward internet websites rather intranet:
Jul 24 2019 01:24 PM
Jul 27 2019 04:24 AM - edited Jul 27 2019 04:27 AM
Powershell is not adapt for this kind troubleshooting, apart the COM problem, you have the total time, but a http page is builded as union of different part and you need to find lagging part.
All modern browser have a tool to see detailed loading time graphs (ex. image below are FF e Chrome)
There are automation platform to automate navigation process(testing/analysiss/rtc) https://www.seleniumhq.org/ but, I think, your task should be accomplished manually.