diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 38c7aa4f..527d1c22 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Version 2.00.0 (2012-08-27 10:57:21) dev
+Version 2.00.0 (2012-08-27 11:07:47) dev
diff --git a/scripts/bench.py b/scripts/bench.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ffb98452
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/bench.py
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+import time
+import sys
+import urllib2
+import urllib2
+
+n = int(sys.argv[1])
+url = sys.argv[2]
+headers = {"Accept-Language" : "en" }
+req = urllib2.Request(url, None, headers)
+
+t0 = time.time()
+for k in xrange(n):
+    data = urllib2.urlopen(req).read()
+print (time.time()-t0)/n
+if n==1: print data