Benchmarking

[Abinand Kishore]

I'm trying to benchmark some performance with the google chrome benchmarker extension. I want to know what exactly do the paint mean, doc load mean and total load time,  mean and how are they calculated. I've searched a lot of the forums with no clear cut replies to the same . Any help would be great . 

THanks 

[Mike Belshe]

These items have to do with various points in the webkit rendering process.  One trouble with benchmarking in a browser is that you're at the mercy of the browser's rendering engine.  Fortunately, webkit is fairly fast, but its by no means a guarantee that its the best or fastest. 

From memory, if I get these right:

   docload:  the main document is fully loaded (not including all subresources)

   paint:  the time to the first paint of the page

   total:  time at which everything is loaded and the pending queue of resources to be fetched is zero

Mike