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….
Features Navigation Realistic Traffic No Scripting Language Allocate Percentages Load Generation From the Cloud Scalable to 300,000 VUsers Geagraphic Distribution of Load Real-time Graphs Performance Reports Download CSV The performance 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…
“Thank you. Rest assured your product is great and was very helpful to my team.” – Kimberly Hatch, Sr. Director, CA Technologies “We needed an easy and cost effective way to load test our Windows Azure solution to find the right number of instances. Thanks to LoadStorm we had our answers in hours. Highly recommended!”…
Andrew Lombardi is a Java Software Engineer and Head Geek of Mystic Coders, LLC in Santa Ana, California. His blog provides insight into many aspects of technology. Our thanks to Andrew for taking the time to share some information with us. What is one tip or best practice that is important to you regarding load…
“Thank you. Rest assured your product is great and was very helpful to my team.” – Kimberly Hatch, Sr. Director, CA Technologies “We needed an easy and cost effective way to load test our Windows Azure solution to find the right number of instances. Thanks to LoadStorm we had our answers in hours. Highly recommended!”…
It’s no secret that Google likes speed. They have made several announcements about the importance of speed on the web and go so far as to describe themselves as “obsessed with web speed”. In April 2010, they announced that Google search was including a new signal in their search ranking algorithms: site speed. “Historically, we…
The process of getting started with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and Simple Storage Service (S3) is extremely easy. A entrepreneur with minimal knowledge of Linux and computer systems in general could have a server with Elastic Block Store (EBS) up within a day. The pricing is laid out before hand and…
In recent years, the good folks at WordPress have made it easier to use their free software not just as a blog, but as the hub of a rich content management system (CMS), complete with static content and custom data types. Given that, it’s no surprise that Webmasters and businesses around the world are increasingly…
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…
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…
