“If an end user perceives bad performance from your website, her next click will likely be on your-competition.com.”
- Ian Molyneaux
What’s New
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The Apache JMeter team has released JMeter 3.1 version with following new features:
- Improved Reports: Connect Time Graph, Response Time Percentiles, Response Time Overview graphs
- New “sent_bytes” metric to report the number of bytes sent to server
- New “connect_time” metric to measure the time to establish connections
- Groovy functions support
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The LoadComplete has released LoadComplete 4.50 version with the following features:
- Batch Runs: Allows to run tests in batches
- Improved Performance Counters: Provides provision to directly add performance counters in the “Runtime” panel
- Recording Improvements:
- Record directly only from the launched browser
- Prompts if current settings are not the recommended settings
Tool(s) Evaluated
Features
- Provides SaaS cloud platform for large scale load testing
- Supports JMeter, Gatling.IO & Custom scripts (Node.js & PHP)
- Provides Firefox plugin to capture Selenium test as a JMeter test plan
- Supports integration with
Jenkins CI tool - Executes test on AWS VMs
- Run performance test from different geo-locations through AWS
- Provides test reports retention on the subscribed plan
- Run performance tests with N number of virtual users regardless of opted plan
- Provides basic reporting for application response time & utilization of server resources [CPU, Network etc.]
Knowledge Base
Benefits of JMeter integration with Jenkins
- Automatic execution of performance test with new build deployment
- Instant update on performance results with email notifications
- Generate trend reports of performance for performance analysis
Tips to improve page performance
- Minimize HTTP requests:
Reduce the number of stylesheets, images, Flash, scripts components on each page to reduce the HTTP requests’ count - Enable Compression:
Compression saves bandwidth and reduce response size. Use “mod_deflate” for Apache, “HttpGzipModule” for Nginx and configure HTTP compression for IIS to enable compression - Ajax/Asynchronous requests:
Requests for a web page are made up of multiple requests that updates the parts of an already loaded page - Enable browser Cache:
Load web page elements from browser cache without sending request to server next time - Optimize Images:
Reduce image size, use PNG, JPEG or GIFs file formats and never leave “SRC” attribute blank to avoid unnecessary traffic - Reduce number of plugins:
Delete or deactivate any unnecessary plugins to improve page speed
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