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Looking at the uses of JMeter Timers

Timers in JMeter are incredibly important when it comes to the balance and pace of your performance tests, we are going to look at the Timers that ship with the standard JMeter installation in this Blog post but there are others that are available as a Plugin and hopefully this post will encourage you to investigate these further.

What is a Good Example of Load Testing?

Whenever I get asked why do I need load testing or why is load testing so important, over and over again I come up with this simple example. Let’s say that you send an email campaign to 10,000 subscribers of your website/blog. What will happen to your website if 1000 subscribers open the email they’ve just received and the email is super interesting and they decide to click the action button in the email, link which will take them back to your website.

Best Performance Testing Tools

Implementing the best performance testing tools allows for an optimized end user experience and improved web performance. In order to execute accurate and effective performance testing, it is important for QA engineers to have access to the right set of tools. With the plethora of performance testing tools, it has become tedious to pick the right tool for your use case. Let’s explore our list of the best performance testing tools.

How to Improve your WordPress Performance Score

We managed to get a 99/100 Performance Score with Google Lighthouse, check the details below how we did it. Read more on how to run a Google Lighthouse audit. First of all, you’ll need to install a list of WordPress plugins, activate and configure them. This will manage your JS, CSS assets and minify the HTML for all pages. JavaScript Options We’ve only ticked the two options here: CSS Options HTML Options Misc Options 2.

Web performance: How to load test

Website owners commonly ask why they need a website performance load tester. Throughout web history, some extremely popular sites have had their fair share of serious downtimes. Either they get massive traffic volumes, or their website simply crashes. Thus, web performance load tester services check the application’s ability to perform under anticipated user loads.

Load Test Your Rails Apps with Apache JMeter

Every Rails app has a breaking point; a level of activity that it simply cannot handle. Your braking point depends on big architectural decisions, yes — and also on the tiniest changes committed by your most junior developer. That's why it's vital to regularly test your application's performance under load. In this article, Milap Neupane gives us a Rails-centric introduction to load testing with a powerful open-source tool called JMeter.

Week of Testing Day 3: Installing k6 and running a load test

How do you get started with the k6 open-source load testing tool? Here's a step-by-step walkthrough of installing k6 and running your very first load test. Timestamps below! Note from Nicole: I realized after this video that I was mixing `let` and `var` in this video. They have different implications on scope, and I would recommend you use `let` or `const` in your own scripts.