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How Much Bandwidth Do You Need To Do a Load Test? 15 May 2013 | 12:21 am
One of the common questions people are interested in is finding out how much a test is going to cost. There are a lot of factors that go into this equation, such as getting an appropriately sized test...
Measuring Web Page Load Times using JMeter 14 May 2013 | 09:38 pm
At last count there were over 65 separate commercial load testing tools out there, but few with the name recognition of the open source program JMeter. Often people will call us up and ask to compare ...
Measuring Pagespeed and Customer Engagement 8 Apr 2013 | 03:30 pm
Recently we started using Google Pagespeed here at webperformance.com, and one of the cool features you can do with it is split traffic, so half of your customers get no pagespeed, and the other half ...
If you absolutely can not test your production system… 27 Mar 2013 | 06:40 pm
In my last post in this series, I asserted that you must test your production system and then promptly dismissed all the popular reasons for not doing so. But in the real world, things aren’t so simpl...
Load Tester LITE/PRO 5.3 Released 9 Mar 2013 | 03:47 am
Web Performance Inc is proud to release Load Tester PRO/LITE 5.3, which focuses on usability. The biggest change you’ll notice is the completely redesigned test case table, with inline editing, undo, ...
Load Testing a Website with Captcha 8 Feb 2013 | 12:18 am
More and more sites are having to add captcha security to thwart spam bots, making this a familiar sight: But what happens when you need to do performance testing on such a site? One common question ...
Load Testing a Website with Captcha 8 Feb 2013 | 12:18 am
More and more sites are having to add captcha security to thwart spam bots, making this a familiar sight: But what happens when you need to do performance testing on such a site? One common question ...
Load Tester 5.2 Released 31 Jan 2013 | 08:34 pm
Yesterday we released Load Tester 5.2. This release contained a handful of UI improvements intended to improve the experience for first-time users. There are no changes in capabilities for PRO users i...
Google Pagespeed 1.1 Performance with PHP 19 Dec 2012 | 04:33 pm
For the past week I’ve been testing out the performance of the new Google Pagespeed module for Apache, mod_pagespeed, and with the memory locking option turned on, the performance was a definite impro...
Google Pagespeed Scalability with Memory Locking 13 Dec 2012 | 02:12 am
In last week’s blog post looking at the overhead of running Google Pagespeed, there was a marked scalability penalty to be paid that was caused by an approximate doubling of CPU load. Several people s...
