Firebug net panel

Request Timeline

Every request-response round trip is shown as horizontal bar in the Timeline and is composed of several phases, represented by different colors. Hovering a Request Timeline offers more detailed information about the timings of the different phases.

Value Display Description

Blocking
Time spent in a browser queue waiting for a network connection (formerly called Queueing)
For SSL connections this includes the SSL Handshake and the OCSP validation step.

DNS Lookup
DNS resolution time

Connecting
Elapsed time required to create a TCP connection

Sending
Sending request headers

Waiting
Waiting for a response from the server

Receiving
 / 

 (from cache)

Time required to read the entire response from the server (and/or time required to read from cache)

‘DOMContentLoaded’ (event)

(blue line)

Point in time when DOMContentLoaded event was fired (since the beginning of the request, can be negative if the request has been started after the event)

‘load’ (event)

(red line)

Point in time when the page load event was fired (since the beginning of the request, can be negative if the request has been started after the event)

‘MozAfterPaint’ (event)

(green line)

Point in time when a MozAfterPaint event was fired (since the beginning of the request, can be negative if the request has been started after the event)

Time stamp

(olive line)

Time stamp created via console.timeStamp()