Web Load Test
Load Test Your Web Servers Using Webserver Stress Tool
Web Server Stress Tool is a powerful HTTP-client/server test application designed to pinpoint critical performance issues in your web site or web server that may prevent optimal experience for your site's visitors.
Web Load Test
One important web performance test type is the web load test: it tests your entire website for the expected load. To conduct a web load test, simply enter the URLs, the number of users, and the time between clicks of your website traffic. This is a "real world" test.
Web load test simulating 4000 users
Stress Test
Stress tests simulate excessive loads (which could, for example, be caused by an aggressive advertising campaign), showing you how many concurrent visitors your web server can withstand.
Other Tests
Apart from web load tests, Webserver Stress Tool also supports performance tests, which query single URLs of a web server or web application to identify and discover elements that may be responsible for poor performance. It therefore enables you to optimize server settings or application configurations by testing various implementations of single web pages/scripts to identify the fastest code or settings.
Moreover, the performance test software allows you to perform ramp tests and various other tests, giving you more insight into your website.
Monitoring Your Web Server Using PRTG Network Monitor
In order to ensure that your web server is working properly at all times, it is not only important to conduct a web load test, but also to monitor factors such as process CPU and memory load, free disk space, the availability and performance of your database servers, etc. Paessler's comprehensive network monitoring solution PRTG Network Monitor is not only the ideal tool to monitor web servers, but also to monitor network utilization and check bandwidth utilization, to manage network devices (SNMP Trap receiver, syslog server for Windows, etc.), monitor email servers, and so on. It even includes powerful VoIP monitoring tools which allow you to check parameters such as packet loss, latency, packet delay, jitter noise, etc.