{"id":72581,"date":"2015-10-22T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/10\/22\/powertip-measure-performance-of-powershell-command\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:34:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:34:48","slug":"powertip-measure-performance-of-powershell-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-measure-performance-of-powershell-command\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Measure Performance of PowerShell Command"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Measure how long it takes for a Windows PowerShell command to complete. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;If I change one command to try to improve the speed of my Windows PowerShell script , how can I see if <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;that command is faster than the one I changed?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Measure-Command<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet. For example, to see if&nbsp;<b>Get-Date<\/b>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<b>[datetime]::now<\/b>&nbsp;is faster, <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;place the command in a script block as shown here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Measure-Command -Expression {get-date}<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Measure-Command -Expression {[datetime]::now}<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Measure how long it takes for a Windows PowerShell command to complete. &nbsp; &nbsp;If I change one command to try to improve the speed of my Windows PowerShell script , how can I see if &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;that command is faster than the one I changed? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Measure-Command&nbsp;cmdlet. For example, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[60,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-72581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-performance","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Measure how long it takes for a Windows PowerShell command to complete. &nbsp; &nbsp;If I change one command to try to improve the speed of my Windows PowerShell script , how can I see if &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;that command is faster than the one I changed? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Measure-Command&nbsp;cmdlet. For example, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}