As you’ve likely seen, we pulled together a comprehensive list of load testing best practices for you to visit, and revisit, at your convenience to help you maintain high performance websites and applications that keep your customers happy.
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Professional Services Series: Leveraging the Cloud for Network Throughput Testing
We recently completed a very large load test of a storage platform for one of our Customers. The goal of the testing was to verify that the storage platform could handle the upload of multiple terabytes of data within a 60-minute period that simulated peak usage. Before Cloud Computing and the advent of a true [...]
Repost: How to Keep Up With the Holiday Rush: 8 Tips for Retailers Looking to Conquer Spikes in Website Traffic
It’s almost that time of year again. Holiday shoppers looking to stay at arm’s length from the seasonal mall madness will undoubtedly turn to the Internet to make their gift purchases. In fact, ShopperTrak predicts national retail sales will rise 3% during November and December this year as compared to the same time period last [...]
UPDATE: Twitter Chat: Worry Less Load Test
Thanks to everyone who joined our Worry Less Load Test Twitter chat on September 14! Joel Weierman, senior manager of professional services for Webmetrics, enjoyed answering a number of questions about load testing from configuration and monitoring to Web traffic management. We hope you found the conversation informational and invigorating. In case you missed the [...]
Traffic Tuesday: Keep Your Website From Crashing With Load Testing
It is a web developer’s nightmare – you launch a new website and it crashes because it was not properly load tested. Unfortunately, that nightmare often becomes reality for many developers and organizations – including recently a salary and wage website for the Ohio’s Treasurer’s Office. On average, the website had been getting about 200,000 [...]
Twitter Chat: Worry Less Load Test
Stay in the driver’s seat and in control! When launching a new website or application there are many things to consider to get ready to go “live” – and one of the most important aspects is load testing. Simply put, load testing helps you determine how many customers the website or application will support – [...]
In the Driver’s Seat: Load Testing Best Practices – Summary
We just wrapped up our five-part Load Testing Best Practices series. We hope you find these steps simple and convenient as you embark on your next load test. Planning When planning a load test, make certain you take all variables into account. For instance, before you load test a website or application, you should ask [...]
In the Driver’s Seat: Load Testing Best Practices – Analysis
Introduction Welcome to the 5th and final blog in our Load Testing Best Practices series. Today we’ll be focusing on how to make sense of your load test once it’s complete and then dig into the data to help locate the cause of any problems you’ve uncovered. What do we mean by Analysis? The goal [...]
Repost: Lessons from the SxSW Panel Picker Launch
Ahh load testing. We all know we need to do it, but how many of us–especially those of us with relatively small sites–actually do it? Testing allows you to determine how many customers your website or application will support–before you find out the hard way (when users hit your site, crash it, and you have [...]
In the Driver’s Seat: Load Testing Best Practices – Execution
Welcome to Part 4 of the Load Testing Blog Series. I’ll be focusing on the type of metrics that are captured while a load test is running as well as some best practices to prepare for when running a test. In my experience, the most useful metrics while a load test is running are: • Number [...]
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Internet Retailer Mobile Commerce Forum: Is Your M-Commerce Site Up to Par?
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Traffic Tuesday: 1 out of 10 Web Visitors Use a Mobile Device
- Straight From the Horse’s Mouth: Load Testing Best Practices from Our Customers
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Mobile Marathon: Top 5 KPIs to Keep Mobile Sites “Always Running”
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Consumers open their wallets for Mother’s Day. Do retailer websites open as fast?
- How Web Performance Could Hurt The Bottom Line
- March Madness Final Four: How did the sponsors perform?
- Web Monitoring: Are your alerts routed to the right team members?
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Did Advertisers Deliver Super Website Performance during the Super Bowl?
