Tips and Tricks

You may want to display the time it took to load a page.
Following is a set of simple PHP code which would help you achieve this goal.

Place the following snippet at the very top of your page.
(Ultimately, it’s advisable to have a header file and a footer file that are included on every page of your website).

<?php
$timer_start = str_replace(" ","",microtime());
?>

Then place the following code at the very end of your footer.

<?php
$timer_end = str_replace(" ","",microtime());
$timer_diff = number_format($timer_end-$timer_start,6,'.','');
if($timer_diff<0) $timer_diff = "0.00";
echo "<div id='load-time' style='font-family: verdana; font-size: 8pt; color: #444444; text-align: center'>Page load time: <b>$timer_diff</b> second</div>";
?>

Obviously, we’re assuming here that this code should be within .php files, with the current server configuration allowing for parsing of such files.

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