Trying to test a site speed and it has its firewall inplace, so just got "Request timed out" a bunch of 'em

Do you know of a site/script to test a site speed other than ping-ing? Like actually try to get the page?

Thanks

traceroute will give you pretty good idea about the network health to the server. you can think of traceroute as an extended version of ping :)

other than that you can download simple HTML pages and can see the response.

Have you ever tried to tracert a host after firewall? Since it's the same mechanism as ping, all hops behind the firewall is not trace-able (it returns *). Try with tera-byte.com

To see the network health around the server in question, you do not need to trace beyond the firewall. :)

And I am wondering why not? :)

well if you can reach the firewall fine, its just one hop to the server, i.e. on the LAN. so if network access is fine, its fine on LAN as well, in most cases ;)