Testing the Speed of a Redirect
 

I've been using this click tracking script for awhile and wondering if there are any online tools that would show the difference in speed between the click script and a direct link to the sponsor. Is there anything like that online?

Is this an issue anyone else is running into?

good luck on that lol

It shouldn't take much extra time at all if it is using header(), which is most likely.

Quit fucking posting in threads that actually are about webmasters for christ sake.

pk, is the trading script hosted on the same server your site is?

like your site is www.yourdomain.com/ and the redirect script is www.yourdomain.com/redirect.php?

and are you concerned about network time, like connecting out to the redirect.. or the actual time it takes to process in the php and stuff? because the latter is completely negligible. immeasurable almost.. we're talking <1ms

er, redirect script.. not trading script, i meant.

It's the latter. I guess I'm just paranoid about stuff I shouldn't be. For some reason it felt like it was holding at that redirect for long.

well it does have to connect to that server first, again, obviously.. so if you have a slow connection to that server, it'll be slower.

but i assure you all the lag to be concerned with is definitely on the network/connectivity side, not on the code-execution side.