Ever wondered what would happen if you launched your web applications without load testing them? You may run into glitches and lose a huge chunk of your customer base due to poor app performance. For ...

Research from Google found that website bounce rates increase by as much as 31% from one-second to three-second load times. In my experience, page load times are one of the most consistent technical ...

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JMeter is a popular open source tool for load testing, with many useful modeling features such as thread group, timer, and HTTP sampler elements. This article complements the JMeter User’s Manual and ...

A public Web site usually represents a considerable investment. Everyone wants it to operate smoothly; there’s a lot of pressure on the development and operations teams to ensure that there won’t be a ...

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Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to load test your websites with a handy command-line tool called Apache Bench. How well are your websites performing? You might ...