Society for Human Resources Management website able to service its 250,000 members while introducing potential savings of $200,000.
Durham, NC – February 19, 2009 – The new Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) website was recently given a huge capacity boost in time for its unveiling, enabling the site to handle large amounts of traffic from its 250,000 members. Web Performance, Inc., (WPI) developers of industry-leading Web Performance Load TesterTM software, increased the site’s capacity from 100 to 2000 users, and reduced server requirements to less than 25% CPU utilization, eliminating two servers altogether and reducing potential software license expenses by … Continue reading »
This update is rather unusual, as it contains a major new feature. Rather than wait until the next release, we decided to release French language support as a patch in order to get it into everyone’s hands as soon as possible. If you’re one of our French speaking customers please let us know how you like being able to use the program in your language of choice. (Note: To get French language support you’ll need to download and run the installer again, as it includes too many changes to be delivered through the automatic … Continue reading »
The latest installment in our PHP performance series takes a look at the open source APC module, which is described this way: “APC is a free, open, and robust framework for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code.” The results were dramatic, as the module increased the user capacity of the reference PHP application by 2.8 times.
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Michael CzeiszpergerFounder of Web Performance, Inc
B.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
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www.webperformance.com
The latest minor update includes 12 bug fixes in the Analyzer and Load Tester modules. Complete instructions are available on how to upgrade, but remember, this is for 3.5 licenses only! Installing this update with a license that is not for version 3.5 will render your software inoperable.
Michael CzeiszpergerFounder of Web Performance, Inc
B.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
LinkedIn Profile
www.webperformance.com
Durham, N.C. — Simulating very large numbers of users accessing a website just got much easier with the release of the Instant Load Engine™ from Web Performance, Inc. Companies that rely on their websites to handle thousands of customers at a time know the value of testing to insure their site’s performance and reliability, but the testing process often incurs long delays as the testing software is installed on up to hundreds of computers. For example, generating 50,000 simultaneous users could require anywhere from 40 to 100 computers to be individually configured and calibrated.
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The most recent update to the 3.5 version of Web Performance Load Tester was uploaded to the website today. Only a single issue was addressed in this particular update, so unless you’re having a problem, there is no need to immediately upgrade.
Note that our support system makes all bug fixes visible so you can track and see if your particular issue was addressed in the update.
Complete instructions are available on how to upgrade, but remember, this is for 3.5 licenses only! Installing this update with a license that is not for version … Continue reading »
Load Testing SugarCRM and the Zend Platform
The performance of our reference PHP application under load (a default SugarCRM installation) showed a 140% increase, measured by total system capacity, after installation of the Zend Platform.
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Michael CzeiszpergerFounder of Web Performance, Inc
B.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
LinkedIn Profile
www.webperformance.com
The new 3.5 version of the Web Performance Suite is now ready to download!
New Load Testing Features
At Web Performance we believe in continual improvement based on customer feedback, and this release includes a slew of new features. The improved load testing report adds a navigation column to exported reports, making it easy to quickly get to any part of an exported report, either locally, or when accessed from a web server.
Michael CzeiszpergerFounder of Web Performance, Inc
B.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
LinkedIn Profile
www.webperformance.com
Load Testing SugarCRM and the Zend Optimizer
This article measures the performance impact of the Zend Optimizer on a real-world processor-bound PHP application (SugarCRM) under load. Our measure of performance is user capacity. We define that as the number of simultaneous users that the system can support while meeting the specified performance criteria. The performance critera for this test require that all pages load within 6 seconds and no errors are encountered in the application.
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Michael CzeiszpergerFounder of Web Performance, Inc
B.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
LinkedIn Profile
www.webperformance.com
Durham, NC (PRWEB) — Web Performance, Inc. (WPI), the creator of industry-leading Web performance web load and stress testing software, releases its latest investigative research report on Apple’s Safari Web browser. In response to Apple’s claims that its recently released Windows version of the Safari Web browser was the “fastest browser on Windows,” WPI put these claims to test.
Michael CzeiszpergerFounder of Web Performance, Inc
B.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
LinkedIn Profile
www.webperformance.com