Research from Google found that website bounce rates increase by as much as 31% from one-second to three-second load times. In my experience, page load times are one of the most consistent technical ...

Ever wondered what would happen if you launched your web applications without load testing them? You may run into glitches and lose a huge chunk of your customer base due to poor app performance. For ...

Load testing tools are important to test a specific software's performance in actual or realistic environments. After all, a web application is only as favorable as its use in practical scenarios.

Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to load test your websites with a handy command-line tool called Apache Bench. How well are your websites performing? You might ...

One thing that is certain about website creation is that no user wants to go to a site that gives them a bad experience. When a user encounters such a site, they will quickly turn away—causing you to ...

With the release of its new LoadRunner in the Cloud application load testing solution, HP aims to provide the flexibility of software-as-a-service in tools that traditionally entailed substantial ...

If your website doesn’t load quickly, you’re losing sales. People aren’t willing to wait anymore. Even worse, slow websites often finish well below faster ones in search results. This means customers ...

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In my new day job at Alpha Software, one of my responsibilities is to explore ways to expand the reach of the company’s products. One of the first projects to fall into my lap was load testing a ...