WebPerf DigitalOcean Introduction to Load Testing

eva2000 · Oct 30, 2017

DigitalOcean Guide An Introduction to Load Testing | DigitalOcean

With studies showing that faster sites result in more engaged users, more sales, and increased traffic, it's important to pay attention to how quickly you can deliver your site to your users and get it rendered in their browser.

The general term for this area of knowledge is web performance optimization, and over the past few years many best practices, techniques, and technologies have been developed to improve the web experience. Many of these techniques focus on reducing the download size of web pages, optimizing JavaScript, and limiting the number of individual HTTP requests a page needs.

In this article, we'll talk about the other side of web performance: how fast can your server respond to your user's requests? We'll review the general landscape of load testing, step through a plan to find your server's maximum practical response rate, and discuss some open-source load testing software.
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Note that article mentioned wrk2 load testing only supports HTTP/1.1 based HTTP and HTTPS load testing as is case with Centmin Mod's installed Siege load tester. To test HTTP/2 based HTTPS, you need to use nghttp2's h2load load testing client.

For examples of load testing I do with various software like Siege, ApacheBench (ab), blitz.io, loadimpact, Locust and h2load check out these 2 links

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