Question

Q: How do I calculate the total time it takes to render an MVC page and display the time on the master page.

In Asp.net Web Form I created a Base page class like so:

public class PageBase : System.Web.UI.Page
{      
    private DateTime startTime = DateTime.Now;
    private TimeSpan renderTime;   
    public DateTime StartTime
    {
        set { startTime = value; }
        get { return startTime; }
    }  
    public virtual string PageRenderTime
    {
        get
        {
            renderTime = DateTime.Now - startTime;
            return renderTime.Seconds + "." + renderTime.Milliseconds + " seconds";
        }
    }       
}

I would then call the method on my Master Page like so:

<div id="performance">
     <% =PageRenderTime %>
</div>

Q: How do I accomplish the same thing with the MVC Framework?

Q: With the MVC framework where do I set the start time when a page is first created?

Answer 1

The best way to do this is calculate the request timing .. Begin Request and End Request ….
Check out this great post:

http://haacked.com/archive/2008/07/02/httpmodule-for-timing-requests.aspx