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French Social Security Administration Chooses Web Performance Over Open Source
Durham, NC – The Caisse Nationale d’Asurance Vieillesse (CNAV) is the French-equivalent of the Social Security Administration in the US, responsible for managing millions of pensions. After becoming disillusioned with the length of time it took to do a performance evaluation using the open source program OpenSTA, they evaluated the top seven commercial load testing solutions and chose Web Performance Load Tester™ because its "no scripting" approach cut their testing cycle to 1/4 to 1/5 of its previous time.
Load Testing a Virtual Web Application
Measuring the Performance Impact of Virtualizing a Web Application Server
Virtualization is hot. Over the past few months, it would be difficult to pick an IT magazine out of my stack that does not have an article on Virtualization. Even in our small company, we have two VMware servers. This allowed us to reduce 9 underutilized servers down to two physical machines. Because the original severs were severely underutilized, the virtualized servers actually perform better (running on newer hardware). They are easier to manage – especially for backups. We have reduced the risk of configuration changes, software installs and upgrades by … Continue reading »
Web Performance, Inc. Tests the Most Complicated Websites – Without Coding
Durham, NC (PRWEB) – Web Performance, Inc. (WPI) announces the 3.3 release of the Web Performance Suite™, web load testing software that uses advanced analysis of web browser/web server communication to automatically test the most complicated websites without programming.
Comparing Apache Tomcat Performance Across Platforms
Part 2: Performance and Distinct Error Handling under Computational Load
In this report the same tests as part one are re-run, this time with no memory limitation showing a marked increase in Tomcat performance on Linux over Windows.
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Performance Impacts of AJAX Development
Using AJAX to Improve the Bandwidth Performance of Web Applications
Being a performance company, we are always interested in the impact of new development techniques on the performance of web applications. We have numerous customers who have performance problems due primarily to the size of their web pages. Put another way – the pages are simply too big to achieve the desired performance goals with the available bandwidth. In some cases, the page consists primarily of content that is common between many pages. For instance, a header, footer and navigation menu that change infrequently, if at all, during the use of … Continue reading »
Comparing Apache Tomcat Performance Across Platforms
Part 1: Performance and Distinct Error Handling under Memory Load
This first part of this article measures performance information in order to distinguish the differences evident between the Windows® and Linux platforms. We find that given comparable hardware the performance differences introduced are almost trivial. When the server was pressed to capacity, our Windows installation was forced turn away some traffic with minimal alteration in serviced performance, whereas our Linux installation elected to service nearly all connections at the cost of introducing latency. However, prior to reaching capacity, our Linux server appeared on average to be capable of servicing connections at … Continue reading »
Web Performance Analyzer 1.1 Released
Durham, N.C. — Today Web Performance, Inc. released version 1.1 of the first web performance analysis tool ever developed specifically for web designers and programmers.
New Application Cuts Performance Testing By Weeks
Durham, NC — Web Performance, Inc. (WPI) announces the latest version of its Web Performance Trainer™ with Application State Management™ software, designed to shave weeks off performance testing cycle for even the most complicated websites.
Web Performance Trainer™ 2.7 Released
Raleigh, NC – This month WPI released the latest
version of Web Performance Trainer™ (WPT) that adds new high-end
features such as performance monitoring of the web server, username
and password wizards, session tracking wizards, byte-level transaction
logging, and improved browser simulation.
Tomcat Performance Best on Linux
Durham, N.C. (PRWEB) – Web Performance, Inc. announces the release of two articles describing how the performance of the popular open source application server Tomcat differs on Windows and Linux.