desktoppr/wbench

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1330 stars · 56 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

WBench is a Ruby command-line tool that benchmarks end-user website load times using the HTML5 performance timing API. It simulates first-time visitors with an empty cache by driving Chrome or Firefox via chromedriver, and can also report server response times for Rack apps.

Use cases

• benchmark how fast my website loads for first-time visitors
• measure page load times from the command line
• compare load times in Chrome vs Firefox
• test mobile user agent page load performance
• measure rack app server response times
• run repeated load-time benchmarks programmatically in Ruby

When to choose

• you want realistic browser-based load time measurements rather than synthetic HTTP benchmarks
• you need a simple CLI to repeatedly load a URL and get timing stats
• you want to benchmark with a cold cache simulating first-time visitors
• you prefer a Ruby API for automated benchmarking

When to avoid

• you need load testing with many concurrent virtual users
• you need modern browser automation beyond Chrome/Firefox or headless options
• you need continuous performance monitoring or CI dashboards
• the project's last release was 2020 and may not work with current chromedriver versions

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

benchmarking load-testing cli performance web-development developer-tools cli windows ruby-gem browser-benchmarking performance-timing-api chromedriver page-load-times command-line macos linux

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