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Web Load and Performance Testing
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The main purpose of web load performance testing is to test the application performance
of your website while it is under varying degrees of stress to check your website
reliability and try and determine the website performance your customers will be
dealing with as they attempt to use your web applications. Reality Load allows organizations
to proactively find and resolve application and website performance, availability,
quality problems, and just overall stability across the entire Web application delivery
chain. This monitoring allows the operator of the website to make sure that the
customers attempting to use the site are being handled with a competent, functional
website that is not prone to being problematic and therefore irritating the customer.
Instani offers these services, providing an out-side in web monitoring service that
will allow you to perceived how your clients would interact with your website from
over 150,000 locations as they are tested on consumer-grade desktops.
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Do your web applications function properly under a heavy user load? If you're serious
about your website being accessible to its visitors, one of the aspects you really
should be concerned about is how well your website handles web traffic and how this
translates to performance on the user's end. This is where web load performance
testing comes in handy. The way your site handles website traffic affects the site's
application performance, and all of this affects the way the user perceives interacting
with your site. It doesn't seem at all unreasonable to expect that a customer who
had a miserable time trying to do something through a website would not be returning
to that website in the future.
Let's say your website offered a web application for processing payments. If a process
that should have only taken a couple of minutes ends up taking ten minutes, the
customer will likely be dissatisfied and will not return. Web load performance testing
allows you to know how your website will function under load and how many users
your website can handle at once. Once you know what kind of load your website can
handle, you can take the appropriate actions to adjust your website's performance
accordingly. You can even get web performance testing for your mobile sites; this
form of testing even goes so far as to test how the user will experience your website
on their phone during their provider's peak traffic hours.
The goal of this form of testing is to ultimately experience your website the way
your clients will experience it so that you can take this information and make your
website more users friendly. Using a service such as Instani.com keeps you from
having to set up a large testing infrastructure and allows you to perform more in
depth testing that would likely be possible even with such an infrastructure. Until
you know how clients interact with and view your website, you can't know what needs
to be fixed.
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You can benefit from web load testing at any time, but there are certain events
that necessitate this need more than others. If you are launching a new marketing
and sales campaign then you might expect an increased flow of traffic to your website.
You need to be sure your site can handle the increased web traffic to ensure you
do not lose any possible customers. If you are rolling out a new website or a new
web application, then you probably need to test. Testing is also a wise idea when
you're planning for the spike from the holiday season or if you've just upgrading
your infrastructure. If you decide to launch a mobile initiative, you would benefit
from mobile testing to see how the new website performs. Web performance testing
provides a necessary piece of information; this information contains data that can
help make your website more appealing and useful to the users, so it should not
be considered a luxury at all. A service like this is an investment in your website's
future.
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