n today's world, before they arise.
organizations are fast
accepting the web and Such issues might include slow
related applications as part of response times while opening the
their overall business website, a limited number of
strategies. They understand that users able to simultaneously
the Internet provides them with browse the website, or a cap on
the potential to target a very the number of requests that can
focused set of customers spread be handled by a processing
across a very diverse geography. application. Based on the
results, a webmaster can identify
For a successful Internet the bottlenecks and take
presence, it is important that corrective actions before they
the web server and web result in lost sales.
applications are reliable,
scalable and always available, What does Website stress testing
irrespective of traffic volumes do?
to the site.
Web stress testing provides
To achieve this, you must test performance reports for varying
all your hardware and software elements. For example, users
using tools to check your might be complaining that your
website, usually called web shopping site is taking ages to
stress tools. These tools should load and most search results are
ideally be used even before the showing errors message. Using a
site is on the World Wide Web. web stress tool, you can check
They can provide a reasonably the performance of your web
good estimate about the server. To your surprise, the CPU
performance of your website and a utilization on the Server may be
company can identify issues just 20%. But if you are also
monitoring the database different locations across the
application, you might find that globe. The web server must
it is already running at 100% and provide reasonable performance
is the most likely reason for from wherever customers are
poor performance. located. In such a situation the
software solution is unlikely to
Stress tools can be deployed as meet the company's requirements.
software solutions where you can
monitor the key components of Organizations must use external
your servers such as the CPU, website stress monitoring tools,
memory and hard disk which provide detailed
utilizations. They are built with performance reports on servers
user-defined alerts that can be that are tested from different
triggered if a particular locations. The outcome of these
parameter crosses a threshold set tests can help in fine-tuning the
by the user. As an example, you settings at their ISPs and in
can configure an alert that must optimizing performance of the
be generated whenever the CPU servers. Besides this, external
utilization crosses the 80% mark. stress testing also include
Although this is helpful in monitoring of other network
identifying system bottlenecks, infrastructures that connect to
the results are limited to web the web server, such as routers,
servers that are connected to firewalls and leased lines that
your internal network. provide the back-end
connectivity.
If the target audience is across
the globe, or even across the This is why Dotcom-Monitor's
country, a company needs to stress test tool
monitor its website and (http://www.dotcom-monitor.com/we
applications stress loads from b-load-stress-test.asp ) offers
its clients stress test agents optimum levels. They handle
located in various countries such transactions quickly and in turn
as the USA, UK and Germany. This offer faster response times to
service provides performance data your user requests. Using web
about the website from these and stress services you can get
other locations spread across the information you need to ensure
globe. superior throughputs and gain a
reputation for high-performance
So if you run a business on the dependability among your
Internet, it is important that customers.
your website and all associated
web applications perform to their
About the Author:
Vadim Mazo is CTO of Dotcom-Monitor
http://www.dotcom-monitor.com
http://www.dotcom-monitor.com/website-monitoring.asp
http://www.dotcom-monitor.com/network-monitoring.asp
David Leonhardt is a website marketing consultant:
http://www.seo-writer.net/freelance/marketing-consultant.html
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