WPLoadTester 7.0 is finally released! The beta program that started in February is over, the release build is on the download page, and pricing is live. Thank you to every team that tested against their own applications; you found problems we could not have manufactured, and 7.0 is better for it.
If you missed the beta announcement, the short version: 7.0 is our biggest release since the product debuted in 2000, and it is the release where AI is actually helpful in a load-testing tool, but on your terms, not the industry’s:
The AI configures your test. Record your application and … Continue reading »
Every AI product now claims it learns. But look closely and what most of them mean is that somewhere a text file is getting longer. The agent hits a problem, works something out, and appends the lesson to an instructions file (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, a “memory” store) that gets stuffed into the prompt on every subsequent call. That is the industry’s default memory architecture: a diary the model re-reads, at your expense, every single time it does anything.
The problem is that it degrades. In 2025, researchers at Chroma measured what they named “context rot” across 18 frontier models, including GPT-4.1 … Continue reading »
AI that works for you — not the other way around.
After 27 years of accelerating the web, we’re shipping Web Performance Load Tester 7.0. It’s our biggest release since the product debuted in 2000, and it’s the release where AI finally pulls its weight in a load-testing tool. But it’s AI on our customers’ terms, not the industry’s. The four pillars of 7.0 are about keeping you in control of your data, your infrastructure, and your costs — while taking the tedious parts of load testing off your plate.
Bring your own AI — your API keys, your models, your … Continue reading »
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