{"id":339,"date":"2009-11-17T17:27:57","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T21:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webperformanceinc.com\/load_testing\/blog\/?p=339"},"modified":"2010-01-25T11:40:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T15:40:23","slug":"load-testing-with-ie-8-0-firefox-3-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/2009\/11\/load-testing-with-ie-8-0-firefox-3-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Load Testing with IE 8.0, Firefox 3.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The performance improvements in the latest browsers (Internet Explorer 8.0 and Firefox 3.5) have been eagerly awaited for many months&#8230;though they come at a price. <!--more--> Improved standards compliance, improved Javascript performance and better network performance are showing significant progress in lowering page rendering times. But one of the improvements &#8211; opening more simultaneous connections to a single server, can have a negative impact on server performance, depending on the configuration and utilization of the server. <a href=\"\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/library\/reports\/LoadTesting-IE8-Firefox\">Our tests on Apache<\/a> found that the new browsers can reduce the total capacity of the server by up to 60% &#8211; when measured as the number of users that can be serviced while maintaining the performance goals for the site. <\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/library\/reports\/LoadTesting-IE8-Firefox\/\">full report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The performance improvements in the latest browsers (Internet Explorer 8.0 and Firefox 3.5) have been eagerly awaited for many months&#8230;though they come at a price. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6,41],"tags":[10,56,11,55,19],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apache-httpd","category-browsers","category-performance-reports","tag-browser","tag-connections","tag-firefox","tag-ie8","tag-page-performance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}