Phantomjs works but is very slow
javascript, phantomjs, webpage-screenshot
Solution
Yes this is normal. When you attempt to render, PhantonJS will still wait for the `page.open` event to fire the `load` event to signify that the entire DOM has been loaded.
Take a look at what happens when I load `espn.com` locally on my system. It takes ~2 seconds for DOMContentLoaded to finish, and then ~7 seconds for the `ready` event to fire.
Problem
I am trying to take a screenshot of a webpage with PhantomJS. Specifically, I am using the example of capturing `espn.com` from this example. My code looks like this: ``` var page = new WebPage(); page.open('http://www.espn.com', function (status) { page.render('fb.png'); phantom.exit(); }); ``` I then go to my PhantomJS directory with either my terminal or command prompt and run: ``` phantomjs shotty.js ``` Everything runs great, however it takes 6-8 seconds to complete the output image. Is that normal? Is there a faster way to accomplish this so that it completes in a second or less? I am using CentOS and Windows 7. Both boxes have 8GB of RAM, 3.2 GHz CPU, and I'm getting 22Mbp/s down and 1Mbp/s up on speedtest.net