Date: 2024oct15 OS: Linux Q. http-ping: see how long it takes to access a website - without downloading extra programs A. Use curl with the head option (then discard the headers)

time curl --head -o /dev/null -s -q example.com

Example output:

real 0m0.022s user 0m0.005s sys 0m0.003s

This is handy for Azure since they seem to not allowed ping.