< 1 minute readSlow websites, or slow pages are not good for SEO. In these days everything needs to be fast. If your website loads in more than 2 seconds you’ll probably lose customers, either by not getting ranked properly in search results, either by customers leaving your website due to its speed. Use a free website speed… Read more »
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Enable gzip compression on NGINX
2 minutes readDuring Speed testing of your website or web application using LoadFocus (https://loadfocus.com/website-speed-testing) on the Advice section you might get the tip that you need to enable compression like in the image below: Compressing responses often significantly reduces the size of transmitted data. Because the compression happens at runtime this can add a big… Read more »
How to Use Apache JMeter’s XPath Extractor?
2 minutes readIn order to add an XPath Extractor to your JMeter script you need to begin by installing JMeter and create an HTTP Request. If you want to check how you can create a load test with Apache JMeter, please check our previous blog post. Start by adding a XPath Extractor to your HTTP Request by following the… Read more »
How to use assertions in Apache JMeter tests
5 minutes readWhat are assertions ? In case you are not familiar with the term, an assertion “is a test / a condition that must be tested to confirm conformance to a requirement”. Basically a test assertion is – a condition that compares the expected value with the actual value for a specified use case. Why should I use… Read more »
How to Add JMeter to the PATH Environment Variable On Mac OS X
< 1 minute readIn case you want to easily start Apache JMeter load testing tool on your MAC OS, here some things which you help you get started. Once you downloaded Apache JMeter, just go to the PATH where you’ve dowloaded it. For example, I’ve downloaded JMeter in my Downloads folder. Here are full details on how to run… Read more »
How To Use Apache JMeter To Load Test a Web Server
6 minutes readOverview We are going to present how to use Apache JMeter (open source load testing tool) in order to perform basic load and stress testing on your web application. We are going through each step and show how to use JMeter’s GUI (graphical user interface) in order to build a test plan, configure load tests,… Read more »
Standard Deviation and Percentiles in Load Testing Metrics
< 1 minute readStandard deviation and percentiles are very helpful when comes to calculating the response times in a load test or a performance test. Standard deviation is just like it sounds: the routine deviation around the average. Standard Deviation can then be used as a gauge of longer response times. For normal distributions, we know that roughly… Read more »