{"id":1404,"date":"2019-01-30T15:20:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T15:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2019-01-30T15:20:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T15:20:43","slug":"why-should-you-run-load-tests-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/why-should-you-run-load-tests-every-day","title":{"rendered":"Why Should You Run Load Tests Every Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\"><\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute read<\/span><\/span><p class=\"lead\"><a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\">Load Testing<\/a> is all about caring for your customers.<\/p>\n<p>Running load tests all year round is a best practice and you should have this idea in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Here are just a few things that can affect your sales, by getting less conversions and increasing the churn rate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New releases containing new code\/features with performance issues<\/li>\n<li>slow new features<\/li>\n<li>buggy code which causes the website, web service to hang<\/li>\n<li>freezing screens<\/li>\n<li>slow database<\/li>\n<li>no CDN for assets<\/li>\n<li>non optimised code\/HTML\/JS\/CSS files<\/li>\n<li>heavy fonts<\/li>\n<li>not used CSS styles and others<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SEO is also impacted by slow websites, sites what experience issues when the load is higher that usual.<\/p>\n<p>These are just some of the reasons why it&#8217;s a good idea to load test your web services, websites every day\/week\/month\/year and not just at specific times.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\">LoadFocus.com<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Here are potential <a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/10\/errors-and-response-codes-in-load-testing-on-loadfocus-com\/\">load testing errors and response codes<\/a> that you may receive while running your load tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\"><\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute read<\/span><\/span>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&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/why-should-you-run-load-tests-every-day\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Why Should You Run Load Tests Every Day?\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-automation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}