LoadFocus Onboarding

Welcome to LoadFocus. This onboarding guide walks you through everything you need to do on day one: creating your account, inviting your team, and running your first tests across each service in your plan.

It takes about 10 minutes end-to-end.

1. Create your LoadFocus account

The first account you create becomes the team owner and is tied to billing. Use a long-lived business email (for example ops@yourcompany.com) rather than a personal address.

Sign up here:

https://loadfocus.com/signup?plan=load_free

If you have already subscribed to a paid plan (Load Testing Pro, Page Speed Monitoring Pro, etc.), the plan is attached automatically once you log in for the first time — you do not need to re-purchase from inside the app.

2. Invite your team

LoadFocus is built around teams. Tests, monitors, reports, and integrations all live inside a team, so the next step is to add your colleagues.

Open the teams console:

https://teams.loadfocus.com

From there you can:

  • Create or rename your team.
  • Invite members by email and assign them a role.
  • Switch between teams if you belong to more than one.
  • Manage SSO and API access for the team.

Full reference: Teams and Members guide.

3. Get started with Load Testing

Your Pro plan covers three load testing engines on the same dashboard. Pick the one that matches your stack — you can use all three at any time.

3.1 Load Testing for Websites and APIs (HTTP)

The fastest path: paste a URL, choose virtual users and duration, and run a cloud load test from multiple geographic regions.

Use this when you want to load test a website, a single API endpoint, or a short multi-step user flow without writing a script.

3.2 Load Testing with JMeter

Bring your existing .jmx test plans to LoadFocus and run them at scale from the cloud — no JMeter master/slave infrastructure to maintain.

Use this when your team already has JMeter expertise or pre-built test plans you want to reuse.

3.3 Load Testing with K6

Run K6 JavaScript test scripts from the LoadFocus cloud and view the results in the same dashboard as the other engines.

Use this when you prefer modern, code-based load tests written in JavaScript and want goals, thresholds, and scenarios as code.

Tip. All three engines share the same project, team, and reporting surface. Tests appear side by side in your test history, regardless of engine.

4. Get started with Page Speed Monitoring

Page Speed Monitoring runs scheduled Lighthouse-based checks on your pages and tracks Performance, SEO, Best Practices, and other audit scores over time, so you can catch regressions when you ship new features.

Your Page Speed Pro plan unlocks higher check frequency, more monitored URLs, more locations, and longer history retention.

A good first setup:

  1. Add your most important page (home, pricing, or top landing page).
  2. Add alert channels (email, Slack, or Microsoft Teams).
  3. Schedule the monitor to run every few hours.
  4. Add alerts on the metrics you care about (Performance score, SEO score, etc.) so you hear about regressions without checking the dashboard.

5. Get started with API Monitoring

API Monitoring runs scheduled uptime and functional checks against your API endpoints from multiple locations worldwide and alerts you when an assertion breaks (response status, body content, headers, or response time).

A good first setup:

  1. Add your most critical API endpoint (login, checkout, or a health endpoint).
  2. Add assertions for status code, response body, and response time.
  3. Set the check frequency (every 1–5 minutes for production, less often for staging).
  4. Pick the locations that match where your customers are.
  5. Wire alerts into the channel your on-call team actually watches (email, Slack, Microsoft Teams).

6. Where to go next

  • Browse the full How-To Guides — one short article per task.
  • Read the Knowledge Base for deeper concepts (response times, samples, granularity, baselines).
  • Compare your usage against plan limits on the Pricing page.

If anything in this guide is unclear, use the support widget on loadfocus.com — we read every message.

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