Load Testing Blog
Load Testing Services Case Study: Mammoth Mountain Ski Area
Fortunately, Mammoth Mountain’s team was prepared and was already working on an updated version of the site that enabled them to make a number of performance enhancements. They put that version of the site into production, and WPI tested again against the new version of the site. The updated version performed much better, easily meeting Mammoth Mountain’s performance goals.
Newest Version of Web Performance Load Testing Software Gives Developers Easier, More Accurate Tests
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New software includes click to configure test case development, visual performance indicators, user-level analysis and expanded compatibility with AJAX and .NET.
Durham, NC – May 6, 2009 – Web Performance, Inc. (WPI) released the most recent version of its industry-leading website performance testing application last week. Web Performance Load Tester version 3.6 includes a number of new features that make it even easier to use and more intuitive for its non-programmer user base.
One of the application’s most appealing new features is its use of visual displays and video demonstrations that … Continue reading »
Web Performance, Inc. Helps Massage Envy Scale for the Holiday Season
Load testing quickly locates source of CPU overload, providing maximum capacity for busy holiday season on schedule to maximum capacity.
Durham, NC – March 23, 2009 – As Massage Envy prepared for a record of online gift card sales its agency, The Lavidge Company, worked with Web Performance, Inc. (WPI) to load test the environment so it could meet demand. Web Performance worked with the agency and found ways of increasing the number of concurrent users each Web server could handle allowing each server to handle 4x more traffic.
Using its Web Performance Load Tester application, WPI began … Continue reading »
Web Performance, Inc. Works Out Kinks in Massage Envy Website Prior to Launch
Durham, NC – March 23, 2009 – Days before launching its new website and online reservation system, Massage Envy and its development partners ran into a snag: The site couldn’t meet its performance goal of 150 concurrent users. The site’s developers called in Web Performance, Inc. (WPI), whose initial performance tests showed the site could only support 34 simultaneous users.
Using its Web Performance Load Tester application, WPI began systematically testing various components of the system, quickly locating a key section of code that wasn’t scaling properly.
“Without performing a load test, Massage Envy wouldn’t have seen this
problem until the site went … Continue reading »
Web Performance, Inc. Releases Safari 4 Browser Performance Research Reports
Durham, NC (PRWEB) – Once again Apple is claiming the superiority of its Safari web browser, and once again Web Performance, Inc. (WPI) is testing that claim. WPI used its industry-leading Web performance web load and stress testing software to evaluate Safari’s performance in real time.
WPI tested Safari 4, Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), and Chrome 1, using Firefox 3.0 as a baseline. They tested all of the browsers on the top 15 most popular sites as ranked by Alexa.com as of February 3, 2009. Sites included Facebook, Google, eBay, craigslist, Yahoo, and Wikipedia. The real-time measurements were taken for both … Continue reading »
Beta Browser Shootout
The latest crop of beta browsers, IE 8, Safari 4, and Google’s Chrome first release are examined using the most popular websites to see if any of them are indeed faster than the competition.
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Web Performance, Inc Boosts SHRM Website Capacity by 2,000 Percent in Time for Launch
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 Tester™ 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 »
Web Performance, Inc Boosts SHRM Website Capacity by 2,000 Percent in Time for Launch
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 »
Web Performance Suite 3.5 Update 6 Adds French Language Support
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 »
Open Source PHP Accelerator Increases Performance 2.8 Times
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.