Key takeaways
- Daily tests catch regressions while the change that caused them is still obvious.
- A small scheduled test is worth more than an occasional exhaustive one.
- Alert on threshold breaches, since a daily report nobody opens changes nothing.
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Running load tests all year round is a best practice and you should have this idea in mind.
Here are just a few things that can affect your sales, by getting less conversions and increasing the churn rate:
- New releases containing new code/features with performance issues
- slow new features
- buggy code which causes the website, web service to hang
- freezing screens
- slow database
- no CDN for assets
- non optimised code/HTML/JS/CSS files
- heavy fonts
- not used CSS styles and others
SEO is also impacted by slow websites, sites what experience issues when the load is higher that usual.
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These are just some of the reasons why it’s a good idea to load test your web services, websites every day/week/month/year and not just at specific times.
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Here are potential load testing errors and response codes that you may receive while running your load tests.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why test daily rather than occasionally?
Because a daily test catches a regression while the change that caused it is still obvious. Found a month later, you are bisecting a hundred commits.
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Does the daily test need to be exhaustive?
No, and it should not be. A small scheduled test that runs reliably is worth more than a thorough one that happens twice a year.
How do I make it useful?
Alert on threshold breaches. A daily report nobody opens changes nothing, and the discipline of running it quietly lapses.