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Load Testing is all about caring for your customers.

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.

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.

With LoadFocus.com there is no need to write any piece of code while configuring your load tests, just a few seconds and you are ready to run load test for your websites.

Here are potential load testing errors and response codes that you may receive while running your load tests.

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Disaster Recovery Testing is the process to ensure that an organisation can recover data, restore business critical applications and continue operations after an interruption of its services, critical IT failure or complete disruption.

A disaster recovery test (DR test) checks every step from a disaster recovery plan as outlined in an organisation’s business continuity/disaster recovery (BCDR) planning process.

Usually, the DR testing process is neglected by many organisation which makes things very difficult to recover when disruption occurs.

Main goals of Disaster Recovery Testing

Communications, data recovery and application recovery are typically a focus of all disaster recovery testing.

Disaster Recovery Plan

It’s very important to understand the following:

how long does it take for the services to recover?
how long does it take to recover the data?
which are the services/data affected?
how will the system behave if part of the infrastructure becomes unavailable?

Disaster recovery tests should be scheduled and executed on a regular basis throughout the year and be incorporated into all planned maintenance and staff training.
Audit logs and other data should be analysed to determine what worked / didn’t work as expected, what changes need to be made in the DR plan.

Disaster Recovery Testing can be executed while the application is under heavy load and carried out in conjunction with Load Testing and Website Speed Testing.

Load Testing Stress Testing

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Stress testing is a simulation technique used in multiple industries to determine their reactions to different unexpected situations. In software testing, you can benefit from stress testing by showing how the application behaves under extreme load conditions.

Shortly, stress testing is used to find the limit, at which the system or software or hardware breaks, by testing with overwhelming data or resources.

Stress tests are usually cloud simulation models that test hypothetical scenarios, also highly customised stress testing methodology is also often utilised.

Use stress tests to test the stability & reliability of your system and infrastructure. These tests determines the robustness and error handling under extremely heavy load conditions.

Main goal of stress testing

To reveal application bugs that can appear only under high load conditions. These issues can include race condition issues, memory leaks, and others.
Stress testing allows you to simulate and identify the application’s weak points. For stress testing to be successful, the application should display appropriate error message while it is under extreme conditions.

Example of stress tests

You can have a web server, that can be stress tested using various scripts, scripts, requests, bots, and various denial of service tools in order to have a better understanding of the performance of a web site during peak loads.It monitors system resources such as CPU, memory, I/O etc., and checks the ability of the application to recover back to normal when the workload is reduced.

Page Load Time Test Automation Website Speed Testing

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Have you even asked yourself what happens behind the scenes when you enter a website’s URL address in the browser and press Enter?

All websites contain a lot of assets that need to load in order for a website to look good, be functional and ready for you to interact with, some of these assets can be:

Javascript files (JS files)
CSS files
Images
HTML
Fonts
Documents
Media
Others

So in order for a website to load, it need to load all these assets in a fast way, in order to please its visitors. Nowadays, fast means a matter of seconds (1-2 seconds), a few seconds more and your visitors will stop entering your website, SEO engines will give your web pages a poor ranking and so on.

The are situations when websites keep loading forever, and this may be caused by various issues:

a 3rd party widget (customer support, analytics, marketing, email) is not loading properly
your server where your website is hosted is not able to cope with the load
the web server is slow
too many visitors (this would be a nice problem to have)
the APIs are not responding to your requests,
the Database queries are pending
the CDN where you host your static assets is not responding
your website is not optimised to load the minimum assets for your website
and others depending on your hardware infrastructure, location, architecture stack etc

So, when your try to load a website, and the loading spinner is not stopping, there are a lot of potential bottleneck you’d have to consider. You can run a free website speed test and get more insight on the potential problems and try to debug what’s really happing with the loading time of a specific website.

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We test your website for free! Get started here!

Let us do the testing for you every month or every release.

We test your website, web services or APIs before any live release. This way you can ensure to release with much more confidence and don’t get any regression bugs.

We run a full set for your website, web application or mobile application:

functional tests
load tests
performance tests
page speed tests
accessibility tests
cross browser testing
security tests (XSS, CSRF, SQL Injections etc)

The first report is free, all you have to do get in touch with us.

We test your website for free! Get started here!

Cloud Services Page Load Time Test Automation Website Speed Testing

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Customers conversion rate is a very important metric for every online business, even if you have a simple website, a blog, an ecommerce marketplace or a complex platform. At LoadFocus, we saw this as an opportunity to add a new service under the same plans, a service which will help you keep an eye on the speed of your website and be able to always compare with any on your competitors.
We wanted to make it easier to monitor any changes that happen on an hourly/daily/weekly or monthly basis with your website, how it renders and how it loads comparing to your top competitors.

LF Page Speed Monitoring

LF Page Speed Monitoring is an easy way to monitor speed of your website from the cloud with LoadFocus. To put it simply, Page Speed Monitoring is like running a Page Speed Testing, but instead of giving you the full report once, you get it every day. It’s a technology that allows you to schedule Page Speed Tests as fast as every hour and you get alerted when your test runs and if anything changes comparing to your previous runs.

The best part? You can see how your website rendered for each run, we take full page screenshots for your website and your competitors along with full performance metrics. LF Page Speed Monitoring provides an easy option to monitor all your websites from the cloud. LF Page Speed Monitoring alerts you when changes occur for any of your websites or competitors’ websites.

Configuration

All you need to do is add your website URL, specify the email addresses on which you want to get alerted for reports and changes, define your competitors, and launch.

Pricing

With Page Speed Monitoring, you have flexible configuration options to closely match your monitoring needs and this services comes along within the same existent plans.

Setting up a new monitor with LF Page Speed Monitoring is a matter of seconds, just set schedule time for page speed tests to run on a regular basis and get notified when tests changes happen or at every run.

LF Page Speed Monitoring is available today.

Automated Website Testing & Monitoring Test Automation UI Testing

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The Document Object Model (DOM) is an object-oriented representation of the web page, representing the document as nodes and objects (HTML tags), which can be modified with a scripting language.

DOM is a programming API for HTML and XML documents.

The DOM is created when the webpage loads inside the browsers, HTML you write is parsed by the browser and turned into the DOM.

If you View Source the web page, the content may and most certainly will be different from DOM’s content. Programming languages, like Javascript, connect to the page and can dynamically change the content of the DOM.

If you open Dev Tools in any browser, you can see a live representation of the DOM and in most simple cases, the visual representation of the DOM will be just like your simple HTML, but remember that JavaScript can manipulate the DOM (dynamically adding content to your web page through AJAX calls).

So, if you are using Ajax to get content from elsewhere, the DOM is going to be very different than your original HTML, similar happens with client side templating.

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