As your business grows so does the load on your website, web applications, and network infrastructure. Load Testing helps you ensure that this growth doesn’t negatively impact site performance, a visitor's experience of your company and brand, or your bottom line.
Benefits of External Load Testing
Load testing is the process of testing an application against heavy loads or inputs to find the point at which the website/application fails or its performance degrades. External Load Testing helps uncover performance bottlenecks so you can rest easy during application launch and busy times of the year.
Today's applications include internal components delivered from the datacenter, as well as calls to external ad servers, news tickers, bill payment, ecommerce platforms and web analytics engines. External components can easily make up 50% or more of the time a user spends waiting for your site to load. Plus, third party service performance can vary widely from geography to geography.
Traditional testing tools that only find internal system bottlenecks behind the firewall, inside the datacenter, are no longer enough to ensure quality user experiences under load. The best way to determine if your Website is ready for peak traffic is to take your end-users’ perspective and test from the outside-in.
External load testing helps answer these important web load questions, before they become a problem.
- How does the website perform under certain loads?
- How many simultaneous users can the website handle?
- Where are the bottlenecks in the website?
- Even if the website can handle the load, can other network components, such as routers and a firewall keep up with the load?
Flexible Solutions to Meet Your Unique Needs
Depending on the complexity of your testing requirements, and the resources and expertise you have available on staff, Webmetrics offers different solutions to meet your unique needs.
Full-Service Load Testing: Our Full-Service Load Testing solution includes a dedicated engineer who is assigned to you for scripting, running tests and providing analysis and recommendations. We can get complex testing done for you quickly and offer you the benefit of our over 10 years of experience in the industry.
On-Demand Load Testing: Our On-Demand Load Testing is sophisticated but also very flexible, allowing you to run tests at any time, night or day. It’s also easy-to-use and you can get started immediately with a free trial.
The Right Solution for You
Not sure which solution is right for you? Let us help! Consider the following:
- Resources: Do you have QA and testing expertise available in-house?
- Schedule – Do you need to run tests any time, on extremely short notice?
- Third-Party Reporting – Do you require independent validation and reporting on your testing results?
Webmetrics has experts on hand to help determine your needs and identify the right solution for you. Contact us today.
Load Testing Overview
