Drupal is one of the most popular open source content management platforms and is being adopted at ever larger organizations because of its powerful features. Our team is conducting load testing against copies of Drupal on various sizes of EC2 instances. We intend to establish performance benchmarks for Drupal version 6.x. If you are a…
Jason Buksh is a Technical Project Manager and Performance Consultant in London, England. Jason has extensive experience with performance testing at many companies including HSBC and Siemens. He is skilled with tools such as Rational, Grinder, and Performance Studio. His certifications include LoadRunner. We appreciate his time to share some good thoughts with us about…
Drupal is one of the most popular open source content management platforms and is being adopted at ever larger organizations because of its powerful features. Our team is conducting load testing against copies of Drupal on various sizes of EC2 instances. We intend to establish performance benchmarks for Drupal version 6.x. If you are a…
Welcome to the fourth part of our Web Performance Optimization series. It is our hope that these suggestions and best practices will assist you in improving the speed of your site. We view performance engineering as an iterative process whereby developers and testers will run load tests, analyze measurements, and tune the system incrementally. Our…
As Web sites grow in complexity, the amount of content they host from third party sources continues to climb. “Third party content” refers to any content hosted by a separate company and integrated into a Web site using server-side HTML injection, IFRAME hosting, or a client-side AJAX include. This trend has its advantages and disadvantages….
Load testing tools can apply large volumes of virtual users against a web application. In its simplest form, LoadStorm generates traffic that goes to a site, searches the home page HTML for links, randomly chooses one and activates that link. The tool carries out a series of these HTTP requests for as many simulated users…
The performance test metrics are plotted in one-minute increments. All of the load generating servers feed data back to the LoadStorm reporting engine. Click on image to see full size. Volume graphs show the traffic measurements between LoadStorm and the target web application. Basically, how strong is the storm? The Summary graph shows high-level metrics…
Load testing tools can apply large volumes of virtual users against a web application. In its simplest form, LoadStorm generates traffic that goes to a site, searches the home page HTML for links, randomly chooses one and activates that link. The tool carries out a series of these HTTP requests for as many simulated users…
Yesterday a customer called me to ask about how his current traffic levels translate to the load he should use for performance testing. We discussed it in several ways, and he said I had been helpful. This morning he sent me an email with a fantastic suggestion to write a blog post about our discussion….
Yesterday a customer called me to ask about how his current traffic levels translate to the load he should use for performance testing. We discussed it in several ways, and he said I had been helpful. This morning he sent me an email with a fantastic suggestion to write a blog post about our discussion….
