Tracking Page Load Times

One of my favorite things about ColdFusion is the level of detail you can get from the debugging information.  The ColdFusion server will provide upon request and the right permissions: variable scopes, sql query information,  server information, and execution / load times.  This is very useful information to have while coding and is invaluable when you are trying to optimize the speed and performance of the site. However, is it hard to get good benchmark for this data over time from the perspective of your end users.

Earlier this week, I set out to see if there was a way I could get access to the page load data and send it along to Omniture so that I could first get a benchmark of what the performance of the web site was over time, and second be able to tell if changes we made to the site had any impact on performance.

My first attempt in accomplishing my goal was to try and access the same Java object that the debugging code used to get the execution times.  I thought, well I see it in the output on the screen, it should be easy enough to grab that data element and pass it along.

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