Jockey is a simple tool for sending HTTP requests and profiling a web server.
Jockey is written in Go and tested on Linux and MacOS with Go 1.13, 1.14, and 1.15.
To build, simply run go build from within the repository root directory.
Usage: ./jockey -url <URL>
Options:
-profile value
Make n requests to the target URL and print request statistics
-url string
The URL to send HTTP requests. (Required)
Defaults to port http and 80 unless specified in the URL
By default, Jockey sends a single HTTP request to the specified URL and dumps
the body of the HTTP response to stdout.
Jockey supports both HTTP and HTTPS, and does not follow redirects.
If the --profile <n> option is passed, Jockey sends n sequential requests and
generates a basic statistical report summarizing the outcome. Jockey considers
any HTTP status code >= 400 as an unsuccessful request and prints a count for
each unsuccessful error code it receives during the profile run. No status code
is printed for requests that fail due to broken network connections or invalid
HTTP responses.
On Unix based systems you can interrupt the profile at any point by sending
Jockey SIGINT, usually by pressing <Ctrl-C>. Jockey will attempt to quickly
complete its current request and exit after printing the statistics for any
completed requests.
All tests were run from NYC over Verizon FIOS and Ethernet. Results appear sorted by median time to complete requests from fastest to slowest.
In absolute terms, https://worker-demo.evanmesterhazy.com and https://www.evanmesterhazy.com exhibited both lower mean and median response times than any other site. Both of these sites are served by Cloudflare; https://worker-demo.evanmesterhazy.com is a Cloudflare Workers site, and https://www.evanmesterhazy.com is a static site sitting behind Cloudflare's CDN. The fact that the median response for these two sites is so similar (even though the first is twice as large) is an indication of the speed of Cloudflare's workers platform.
It's worth noting that even though these sites outperformed all others, they are both considerably smaller in terms of bytes transferred. https://www.google.com performed third fastest, trailed closely by https://www.cloudflare.com which transferred over twice as many bytes. All other sites tested were at least two times slower than https://worker-demo.evanmesterhazy.com.
Jockey was written based on the requirements of Cloudflare's 2020 systems engineering assessment.
Evan Mesterhazy - contact at evan.mesterhazy AT gmail.com