Here’s a selection of interesting blog posts I’ve found relating to performance testing.
SLAs for page loads: Sweet spot is 2.4 seconds
Soasta have provided a 2017 guide to retail performance. By their calculations, a retail web page should load within 2.4 seconds—and a mere 1 second more will result in an 8% bounce rate.
This is good info for those customers who want to know the “industry standard” for their NFRs.
Grab the full report from Soasta.
Performance tuning AJAX-based applications: Best practices
This post is from a few years ago, but is still relevant today (at least before HTTP/2 takes over). It covers the performance needs of a Web 2.0 website—which are different to standard sites. Multiple small requests are typical of AJAX, and that can exacerbate issues with latency. Check out this post to refresh what you know about AJAX testing.
Comparison of testing tools: DIY with Docker
If you want to be across more open-sourced tools than just JMeter, then this is a great place to start. This blog post gives you links to containerised versions of a variety of performance tools, ready for you to try out.
Load testing the New York Marathon
The New York Marathon has finished now, with an American coming first in the women’s category with a time of 2:26:53. There was even an 84-year-old who came in with a respectable 6:12:53. To get these results, you can go to their webpage (www.tcsnycmarathon.org). Imagine how many people were checking their times—or the times of their friends and family. As you would expect, the website was performance tested to make sure the website would support the supporters.
Read about the 2Million page views they reached during testing here.