Is it possible to set wget to show the transfer times in milliseconds?
The total average transfer rate and the total bytes transferred are also part of the output.
2010-02-04 09:18:48 (71.5 MB/s) - `index.html' saved [8105/8105]
8105 bytes / 71500000 bytes/sec ==> 0.0001133566 sec
You can run time wget ... to get a real time estimate for a transfer from start to finish.