I am playing around with Fiddler to gather stats on how long a ASP.NET page takes to load. In the Statistics tab, I see the Total Sequence Time
Does this number include ALL the following:
1. Time over the wire
2. Downloading JS files
3. Running any JS scripts on load
4. Making any database calls
5. Running server side logic
Anything else that can be added/removed to the list above?
It will include the time till the last byte. Fidler does Network monitoring.
Since you dont access any databases etc on the browser that time is already included. The DL times for the JS files are also included, since they are send to the client. If you JS will load any additional files on a pageload, then this time will also be included, if ig does not fetch anything from the server, then that time wont be included.
As mentioned already, Fiddler tracks the bytes traveled across the network and is really not meant for performance tests. If you're looking to do a performance test, the recommendation is to generate several unit tests that cover the functions of your web application and then use the performance tests built into Visual Studio (or utilize another testing framework) to stress test your application. That's the more accurate way to determine load.
If you are looking for load times for a page, turn tracing on to see from start to finish the load times. It will show each event in the stack.
HTH