6 minutes readKey takeaways Virtual users model concurrency; RPS models throughput. They are not interchangeable. The same RPS can come from few busy users or many idle ones, and the server behaves differently. Choose the one that matches how your traffic actually arrives. Introduction Hey there! If you’ve ever been curious about performance testing, you’ve probably come… Read more »
2 minutes readKey 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… Read more »
7 minutes readKey takeaways Throughput is completed requests per unit of time, and it plateaus before response time does. A rising response time with flat throughput means you have found capacity. Report it with response time; either number alone can be made to look good. Throughput is the metric that tells you how much work a system… Read more »
