curl

[root@unixd ~]# time for i in {1..100};do curl -I sweb.ru.ru >> /dev/null 2>&1;done

real    0m7.083s
user    0m2.049s
sys 0m1.259s
[root@unixd ~]# time for i in {1..100};do curl -I sweb.ru.ru >> /dev/null 2>&1;done

real    0m5.746s
user    0m1.991s
sys 0m1.343s
[root@unixd ~]# time for i in {1..100};do curl -I sweb.ru.ru >> /dev/null 2>&1;done

real    0m5.616s
user    0m1.944s
sys 0m1.391s
[root@unixd ~]#