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Learn how to properly load test your site to detect problems early.

News/Follow-Ups – 00:35

• Kittens
• Work Retreat

Geek Tools – 03:54

• Rare Earth Refridgerator Pins – Super strong fridge magnets to hold heavy paper loads

Load Testing – 07:54

• What is it?
  • Put demand on the system and measure response
  • When raised over normal usage patterns this is called stress testing
• Why do it?
  • Nobody likes a slow site
  • Google has officially said it factors in page rank
  • Other things you can find
    • Memory leaks
    • Incorrect server config settings
• Layer Testing
  • Application
    • Set up mocks and run your tests
  • Database
    • Mysql Stress Test
• Metrics
  • Requests per second
  • Queries per second
  • Latency time in miliseconds
  • Throughput in bytes per second
• Load testing single pages vs load testing Login pages and user actions
• Tools
  • ab – Built in Apache Benchmark
  • pylot
  • Jmeter
  • neoload
  • Selenium
  • curl-loader
  • Google average spider response time on webmaster central

Webapps – 29:29

• Loadimpact.com – Simple cloud based load testing
• Browsermob – Cloud load testing with Selenium support