Can anyone provide me with an example of a website that I could use to test internet response time, having the following properties:
1) must be public (i.e. not personal info; free registration & login OK)
2) must use secure socket layer (https)
3) must contain a large, fairly consistent dataset.
On my own, I can test something like my online bank transaction history, but this won't satisfy #1
Then I thought of setting up a dummy portfolio on Yahoo or Quicken.com, but they don't seem to be truly secure. They also load really fast here (1-2 sec), making it difficult to time.
Background: We have implemented an ASP solution which among other things stores large amounts of data accessible via secure http. We are experiencing a wide range of performance levels at our various offices in the US, Europe, and Asia, so I am setting up a quick-and-dirty testing scheme just to get a good idea what the comparative performance levels are.
Users at each region will time a couple of procedures within the ASP application. In addition, they will retrieve an online document from our corporate intranet. I hope this will isolate differences among regions within our corporate network environment. The final thing I want to test is retrieving data from a third party website, having at least a superficial resemblance to the ASP, hence my question at the top.
1) must be public (i.e. not personal info; free registration & login OK)
2) must use secure socket layer (https)
3) must contain a large, fairly consistent dataset.
On my own, I can test something like my online bank transaction history, but this won't satisfy #1
Then I thought of setting up a dummy portfolio on Yahoo or Quicken.com, but they don't seem to be truly secure. They also load really fast here (1-2 sec), making it difficult to time.
Background: We have implemented an ASP solution which among other things stores large amounts of data accessible via secure http. We are experiencing a wide range of performance levels at our various offices in the US, Europe, and Asia, so I am setting up a quick-and-dirty testing scheme just to get a good idea what the comparative performance levels are.
Users at each region will time a couple of procedures within the ASP application. In addition, they will retrieve an online document from our corporate intranet. I hope this will isolate differences among regions within our corporate network environment. The final thing I want to test is retrieving data from a third party website, having at least a superficial resemblance to the ASP, hence my question at the top.