Web Performance Center
Testing an interactive web site is difficult without a good understanding of testing theory and procedures. The Web Performance Center is home to in-depth load testing reports and a blog covering the latest in load testing information.
And if that weren’t enough check out our great collection of recommended books, articles, and presentations, and a useful dictionary or load testing terminology.
Latest from the blog
AJAX
- New JavaScript optimizer
- How-To: Dynamic Field Names and Multi-Variable Extractors
- Performance Impacts of AJAX Development
Apache/Linux
- The Fastest Webserver?
- Load Testing Back to Basics: Avoiding the KeepAliveTimeout Race Condition
- Load Testing with IE 8.0, Firefox 3.5
- Measuring the Performance Effects of mod_deflate in Apache 2.2
Browsers
- Internet Explorer Static File Caching Defect
- Load Tester 4.3 Improvements: Speculative Authentication for IE8 and IE9
- What’s new in Load Tester 4.2
- IE Performance Tip: avoid repeating <img> tags
Case Studies
- Drupal: Caching and Database Scalability
- aiCache and Drupal: A Case Study
- Optimizing Drupal: From Baseline Drupal to the Pantheon Drupal Platform
- Load Testing Drupal: Introduction
Company
- 3 Podium Finishes for the Web Performance Race Car
- Site outage report for 27-28 October, 2011
- Web Performance Race Car Wins BMWCCA Enduro at Road Atlanta!
- Web Performance Race Car Takes Third at the Charlotte Motor Speedway
Drupal
IIS/ASP/.NET
Java/J2EE
- Garbage Collector Performance under Load
- Load Engine Tuning: JVM Memory Optimization
- Velocity Conference – Day 1
- Performance goals and analysis methods in 3.6 release
Javascript
Load Testing
- Validate the Testcases
- Test Only as Accurately as Needed
- Identify and Test High-Risk Operations
- Design a Load Test that Measures What You Really Want to Know
Performance Reports
- The Fastest Webserver?
- Internet Explorer Static File Caching Defect
- Microsoft Affirms the Importance of Web Performance
- Configuring and Analyzing Performance Goals
PHP
- Open Source PHP Accelerator Increases Performance 2.8 Times
- The Impact of Zend Platform on PHP Performance
- Impact of Zend Optimizer on PHP Performance
Virtualization
- Load Testing from the Cloud
- Performance goals and analysis methods in 3.6 release
- Load Testing A Web Application Running in a Virtual Machine
- Load Testing a Virtual Web Application
