What exactly is Page Response Time?

Question

I use Visual Studio 2012 for doing some load testing in our web application, and one of the metrics we rely on is "Page Response Time". I found this article, but it doesn't really answer the question. I also found a Stack Overflow question that gives some details, but isn't quite what I'm looking for.

The software I'm testing is a web interface that uses a relational database back-end. If I look at the Total Average Page Response Time for a specific test, what exactly is that telling me?

Does it take into account the time that the database spent processing the request? Or just the time that the web page took to be processed on the web server and client machine?

Ultimately, I'm looking for a metric that would tell me the total response time and would also take into account time spent within SQL finding the information.

Answer 1

Is the time that takes to server to send all resources (or the time to send the last one) to client browser (this is why is bandwidth dependent). for example in the picture you can see the stack overflow response time (big red line) using chrome developer tool (press f12)