Time difference between requests

VitorJeremias · May 19, 2020, 3:20pm

Some requests to the Appium server take just a few milliseconds, but others take over 1 second. What causes that discrepancy?

Also, is it normal that all requests take over 500ms?

Small example of some requests:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/VitorJeremias/7070f0ebe1061a94457188d6f3cbe2e9

Appium requests

[HTTP] --> POST /wd/hub/session/93b443d6-a1c9-43c3-b31c-644c38ee1e98/element
[HTTP] {"using":"id","value":"com.csg.securechat:id/pass_field"}
[debug] [W3C (93b443d6)] Calling AppiumDriver.findElement() with args: ["id","com.csg.securechat:id/pass_field","93b443d6-a1c9-43c3-b31c-644c38ee1e98"]
[debug] [BaseDriver] Valid locator strategies for this request: xpath, id, class name, accessibility id, -android uiautomator
[debug] [BaseDriver] Waiting up to 30000 ms for condition
[debug] [WD Proxy] Matched '/element' to command name 'findElement'
[debug] [WD Proxy] Proxying [POST /element] to [POST http://127.0.0.1:8201/wd/hub/session/13d0d274-8754-489b-a279-08a2632b1a3b/element] with body: {"strategy":"id","selector":"com.csg.securechat:id/pass_field","context":"","multiple":false}
[debug] [WD Proxy] Got response with status 200: {"sessionId":"13d0d274-8754-489b-a279-08a2632b1a3b","value":{"ELEMENT":"207d3272-657a-4584-aa09-e3faa3dc7f45","element-6066-11e4-a52e-4f735466cecf":"207d3272-657a-4584-aa09-e3faa3dc7f45"}}
[debug] [W3C (93b443d6)] Responding to client with driver.findElement() result: {"element-6066-11e4-a52e-4f735466cecf":"207d3272-657a-4584-aa09-e3faa3dc7f45","ELEMENT":"207d3272-657a-4584-aa09-e3faa3dc7f45"}
[HTTP] <-- POST /wd/hub/session/93b443d6-a1c9-43c3-b31c-644c38ee1e98/element 200 23 ms - 137

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On lines 2 and 29 the same request is sent, but one takes 23ms and the other one takes 270ms (over 10x more)