Web Load Testing Tool Launched
Very few website monitoring companies offer load testing tools
August 12, 2004, Plymouth, Minnesota --
Dotcom-Monitor has just added an external web site load stress testing
tool to its suite of executive class website and network monitoring
services.
Web site load testing helps companies answer critical
questions as their business grows:
- How well does our web site perform under different loads?
- How many simultaneous users can our web site handle?
- Where are the bottlenecks in our site?
- Even if our web site can handle the load, can other network
components, such as routers and firewall keep up with the load?
Very few website monitoring companies offer load
testing tools or services. Dotcom-Monitor's service offers businesses
the opportunity to customize each test based on their individual
needs. Agents positioned around the globe simulate real users, performing
whatever application is being stress tested, such as a shopping
cart, form, forum, etc., or multiple applications at once.
Dotcom-Monitor's web load testing service differs
from most stress test tools because it is external. Most tools are
internal, monitoring from very close to a company's web server.
External agents, such as Dotcom-Monitor's on three continents, more
closely simulate real user behavior.
Web Load Testing Costs
Pricing for web load testing determined by total
number of hits required to complete the stress test. For example,
if a business has an application with five steps and wants to run
50 simultaneous users, each user going 100 times through application,
the total number of hits would be: 5x50x100=25000. The price ranges
from $0.90 to $10.00 per thousand hits, depending on the total number
of hits required.
Dotcom-Monitor offers and online calculator to
determine the final cost for the stress load test before a customer
begins testing. The calculator is at http://www.dotcom-monitor.com/stress-calculator.asp
More information about the web load stress testing
tool can be found at http://www.dotcom-monitor.com/web-load-stress-test.asp.
Dotcom Monitor is the executive class website
and network monitoring company, offering top performance services
above and beyond the norm in the industry. Since 1998, its goal
remains to protect the reputation and profitability of online business
by bringing together monitoring, reporting, notification, escalation
and analysis in the combination best suited to a company's needs.
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