in reply to Loading time

LWP and Benchmark are your friends.

Just to give you and idea in psuedocode: 

mark starting time
use LWP to get the page
mark finish time
calculate difference
send email if difference is too much

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Try it, you'll like it. Or you could use Nagios... but this is a Perl Monks site not a Nagios site... ;-)

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