During crucial performance testing session we need to monitor and measure various parameters/metrics to be able to analyze and understand why the application behaves in a certain way under a specific load. Below ones are the most used metrics collected during performance testing sessions.

Software developers try to implement applications that not only is responsive and fast with a very small number of users but also with multiple users using the application. To be able to measure this we need to rely on different types of performance testing. Performance testing should be an integral part of the agile release manifesto.

Have you ever entered a website and realized how slow things move, you just click a button and you have time to do something else until the requested action is finished. Sometimes I enter on this kind of websites with the idea to purchase their product or service, but when the things move so slow, I start to ask myself, do I really wanna purchase this or shall I find another competitor or website offering the same product.

We’ve added the functionality to add notes to your load test results. This functionality applies to Load Tests and JMeter Load Tests. It’s super simple to add/edit/remove notes for any of the test runs of the same test in order to caption various changes of your test runs. You can easily compare any test run with a baseline.

The load test comparison feature build-in to LoadFocus Results allows you to compare the results of two different test runs of the same test for the cloud load testing service. You can visually compare the results between the test run set as baseline and the current test run, just by setting a test run as a baseline, and loading the other load tests runs. Baseline comparison is important because it allows to easily find differences in performance for the test runs.

Here at LoadFocus we provide an easy way of running your custom JMeter scripts from the cloud from various locations and with more than 20.000 users in parallel against non-secured and secured APIs.

At LoadFocus, we’ve implemented an easy way to monitor the rendering of websites on desktop and mobile devices, this helps you get hints on how to improve the images that you load on your website. Your website’s or blog’s speed is a very important metric in ranking in search engines Try to keep that in mind when developing new features and adding fancy images and animatios to your pages.

In this new work from home era, a lot of companies have moved more and more towards online services and new tools to keep their productivity at similar levels as before. It’s harder and harder to keep track of all the tools and services you use on a regular basis to test all your websites and API services of your business. Here at LoadFocus it gets easier and easier to make use of the integrated testing services we provide as of today.

Apache JMeter is a Java-based, open source testing tool, which can help you create and run functional and load tests for Websites, APIs (REST and SOAP) and other web services. In this example we are going to have a look on how to create and run a JMeter test using a CSV file for our data, and consume the data in our test from that CSV file. First, let’s open JMeter and create a new JMeter test script. Add a Thread Group Inside the Thread Group add the following.

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