HTTP load testing using ApacheBenchmark and Httperf
In this article I will show some http load testing examples using two useful webserver benchmark tools, ApacheBenchmark (called ab) and Httperf . It’s important to note that both benchmark tools do not work like a real browser but they only test the standard http payload of the web application. This means that are not loaded the assets like images, javascript or css but only the rendered HTML of the URL under test. For example, suppose we want to test the url http://mywebserver/index.html . Here is the html source of index.html page. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 < html > < head > <script type = "text/javascript" src = "http://server/jquery.min.js" > </script> < / head > < body > < div > Test < / div > < div > < img src = "http://server/image.png" > < / div > < / body > ...