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Each call to test incurs 5-6 second wait

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andarp
andarp

Every single test I write has a 5-6 second startup time before successfully navigating to the root page. Is this normal? Am I missing something? Can I remedy it somehow?

This thread is trying to answer question "Why does each test run incur a 5-6 second wait before successfully navigating to the root page and how can it be remedied?"

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andarp
andarp

The same issue occurs in both headless, headed and ui mode.

skorp32
skorp32

Try running with DEBUG=pw:* or DEBUG=pw:browser env and see what takes the time

andarp
andarp

DEBUG=pw:browser output is quite limited, nothing interesting there as far as I can see. With DEBUG=pw:* theres a lot of output to comb through so I'll get onto that.

But am I correct in assuming that there shouldn't be such a delay on every test run?

skorp32
skorp32

usually not

andarp
andarp

The output from -ui shows this, as you can see the time is on page.goto, not the before hooks:

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skorp32
skorp32

then it just looks like slow page loading

skorp32
skorp32

or page is slow at firing load event

skorp32
skorp32

you can try using waitUntil: 'domcontentloaded'

andarp
andarp

Ok - that makes more sense to me. I'll start digging in that end instead. Thanks a lot!

andarp
andarp

domcontentloaded and load events fire close to the same time, so there is no big difference there unfortunately

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