Phantomjs works but is very slow

Question

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:

Answer 1

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.