Install

Links

• http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/wiki/QuickStart

• https://github.com/n1k0/casperjs Casper.js is a navigation utility for PhantomJS.

Prerequisites

sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev libqtwebkit-dev qt4-qmake

Install

cd ~/repo/src/
git clone git://github.com/ariya/phantomjs.git
cd phantomjs
git checkout 1.2
qmake-qt4 && make

cd ~/bin/
ln -s ~/repo/src/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs .

Sample

Copy the following code into loadspeed.js:

var page = new WebPage(),
    t, address;

if (phantom.args.length === 0) {
    console.log('Usage: loadspeed.js <some URL>');
    phantom.exit();
} else {
    t = Date.now();
    address = phantom.args[0];
    page.open(address, function (status) {
        if (status !== 'success') {
            console.log('FAIL to load the address');
        } else {
            t = Date.now() - t;
            console.log('Loading time ' + t + ' msec');
        }
        phantom.exit();
    });
}

Run the script

phantomjs loadspeed.js http://www.google.com