Load Tester 6.7 and earlier does not support Brotli encoding. This is obviously planned for future releases, but for now you may need to use this workaround. If the site just has brotli on static pages there’s no need to do anything special, but if you are testing a site that is using Brotli encoding on security API calls that return session variables you’ll want to read on.
Brotli encoding has been gaining in popularity because it was designed from the group up for streaming. As a result, it reduces latency over gzip, which was originally designed for files … Continue reading »