Key takeaways
- Hits per second counts every request including assets, so it exceeds page views substantially.
- It shows server workload rather than user activity.
- Compare it with throughput and response time; alone it says little.
Hits per second represents the number of requests sent to the server in one second (the load which the server is being hit).
Hits per second is the total load set by the concurrent virtual users on the server, no matter if they are executed successfully or not on the server side.
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Written by Bogdan Vazzolla.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does hits per second count?
Every request reaching the server in a second, including assets. That is why it is much higher than page views and should not be read as user activity.
What is it useful for?
Understanding server workload. It tells you how hard the server is being hit, regardless of how those requests map to what people were doing.
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Is it meaningful alone?
Not really. Compare it with throughput and response time. High hits per second with climbing response times means something quite different from the same figure with flat latency.