Use Selenium to Measure Web Timing

web_timing.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
 Use Selenium to Measure Web Timing

 Performance Timing Events flow

 navigationStart -> redirectStart -> redirectEnd -> fetchStart -> domainLookupStart -> domainLookupEnd 
  -> connectStart -> connectEnd -> requestStart -> responseStart -> responseEnd 
  -> domLoading -> domInteractive -> domContentLoaded -> domComplete -> loadEventStart -> loadEventEnd
"""
from selenium import webdriver

source = "http://www.babycenter.com/"
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get(source)

navigationStart = driver.execute_script("return window.performance.timing.navigationStart")    
responseStart = driver.execute_script("return window.performance.timing.responseStart")
domComplete = driver.execute_script("return window.performance.timing.domComplete")

backendPerformance = responseStart - navigationStart
frontendPerformance = domComplete - responseStart

print "Back End: %s" % backendPerformance
print "Front End: %s" % frontendPerformance

driver.quit()