Comprehensive Load and Stress Testing Overview

When you are expecting a large number of visitors to your website; during a sale, a marketing campaign or a seasonal peak - you need to be sure that your website will support the increase in traffic - Capacity Planning is vital. And when you are implementing a major web development; a new application, online service or infrastructure change - you need to know that it will deliver at the busiest times.

As a business grows so do the demands on the company website and its underlying infrastructure. These additional loads can impact on performance, and negatively impact customer online experience. Load testing is essential to ensure that Dynamic User Journeys - key routes that visitors take across a website - can manage high volumes of traffic and concurrent users performing transactions, at the most critical times.

Your homepage may function fine but will visitors struggle to place orders, login or set up accounts? SciVisum’s User Journey Load testing is performed from the user’s perspective - simulating an increasing number of concurrent users carrying out multi-page transactions.

SV-Load is engineered to expose limitations and bugs that are likely to appear under stress. Our load performance testing service measures the impact of increasing loads on timings and error rates at every step of a journey and also identifies failure criteria, measures recovery after failure and predicts when upgrades will be necessary.

Whether part of a concious roll out of ITIL Capacity Management for your website: or whether you're just taking the first steps to get meaningful data of your website capacity planning - there are services to suit.

SciVisum offer two load testing services which utilise SciVisum’s high quality hardware and resources; SV-LTS and SV-LTP. Each package is designed to offer bespoke quality solutions for individual needs. View the SV-Load Service and SV-Load Portal pages to find the most suitable service for your website testing circumstances.

"I cannot stress (excuse the pun) how important this exercise really is!!... Studies show that the average Web user does not wait for more than 10-15 secs for the page to load before leaving for a rival site. With click-happy, impatient web customers one can’t take chances. On a fateful day in December 1998, an overloaded server of a popular e-commerce site caused an outage of 4 hours. The Cost: $400,000!! ... Even more damaging is the perception of the company by the customer; the users do not care why the outage happened, they just surmise that the service is bad. “
Dev Noronha, ASP101

More Information

• Load Testing Data Sheet PDF
• Self Service Load Testing Portal
• Managed Load Testing Service
• Benefits to Technical and Commercial Teams
• Which Service Is Right For You?

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