Check download time for HEAD and GET requests for the linuxmint/mintinstall reviews list.

check_load_time.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

import urllib.request
import time
import os

url = "https://community.linuxmint.com/data/new-reviews.list"

CACHE_DIR = os.path.expanduser("~/")
reviews_path_tmp = os.path.join(CACHE_DIR, "reviews.list.tmp")

start_time = time.time()
length_HEAD = urllib.request.urlopen(url).info()['content-length']
elapsed_time = time.time() - start_time
print('Content-length: ' + length_HEAD)
print('HEAD request time : ' + str(elapsed_time))

start_time = time.time()
urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, reviews_path_tmp)
length_GET = os.path.getsize(reviews_path_tmp)
elapsed_time = time.time() - start_time
print('Reviews file size: ' + str(length_GET))
print('GET request time: ' + str(elapsed_time))