Merge pull request Python-World#196 from AdityaJ7/website-load-time

Added script to check website load time

Author: chavarera

projects/Time to load Website/README.md

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+## Time to load website 
+
+This script takes a url from the user and returns the time taken to load that website.
+
+## How to use this ?
+
+1. Just type the following on the command prompt:
+
+python time_to_load_website.py
+
+2. It will reuest you to provide a url. Provide the url and hit enter to see the script in action.
+
+## Sample use:
+
+<p align = "center">
+<img src="sample.PNG" alt="sample">
+</p>

projects/Time to load Website/sample.PNG

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+from urllib.request import urlopen
+import time
+
+
+def get_load_time(url):
+ """This function takes a user defined url as input
+ and returns the time taken to load that url in seconds.
+
+ Args:
+ url (string): The user defined url.
+
+ Returns:
+ time_to_load (float): The time taken to load the website in seconds.
+ """
+
+ if ("https" or "http") in url: # Checking for presence of protocols
+ open_this_url = urlopen(url) # Open the url as entered by the user
+ else:
+ open_this_url = urlopen("https://" + url) # Adding https to the url
+ start_time = time.time() # Time stamp before the reading of url starts
+ open_this_url.read() # Reading the user defined url
+ end_time = time.time() # Time stamp after the reading of the url
+ open_this_url.close() # Closing the instance of the urlopen object
+ time_to_load = end_time - start_time
+
+ return time_to_load
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+ url = input("Enter the url whose loading time you want to check: ")
+ print(f"\nThe time taken to load {url} is {get_load_time(url):.2} seconds.")