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Tools for Stress Testing Websites?

Posted by Cliff on from the breaking-things-in-a-controlled-environment dept.

rickindy asks: "What do you usedfor web site load testing tools? Open source or commercial is fine, but my employer it hosting a boatload of sites, and we would like to find the breaking point for the server at some time other than 3:00am."

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  1. Maybe this will help? by hhe_hee · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think this link can be helpful for you, it provides a huge list of web test tools. They are organized in categories for which sort of test one would like to perform. They also have a FAQ which answers several questions about how sites can be tested, and it also points out what things you should think about, like; what are the expected loads, who is the target audience, what kind of performance is expected on the client side, and so on.

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  2. http_load by elbuddha · · Score: 3, Informative



    http://www.acme.com/software/http_load/

  3. WAST by Merkins · · Score: 2, Informative

    This will probably get me strung up.... but Microsoft have a free one called the "Web Application Stress Tool".

    Might be worth a look if you have an MS Box to run it on.

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  4. Jakarta JMeter by Gill+Bates · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's the Jakarta project's JMeter, from the folks at Apache. It's written in Java, but can be used to load test a wide variety of network resources.