Load Impact Load Testing and Performance Testing

Load Impact executes 100,000th load test!

We are extremely happy to announce that we recently passed the magic number: 100,000 load tests have been executed since launch early 2009! This is an incredible achievement, and we want to thank all our users for the huge interest you have shown in Load Impact. A hundred thousand load tests is just incredible, and something we never dreamed we would reach this quickly when we launched the service just a little over a year ago.

This blog entry is actually a bit late (as usual), as we executed load test #100,000 this wednesday (the 14th). This means that we have a lucky winner of our iPad competition also. All registered Load Impact users got the opportunity to guess when we would execute load test #100,000, and the one who got closest would win an iPad. The lucky winner is Ben Lamb from the UK (you will also be notified by email, Ben), who guessed that the test would start at 11:00 on the 14th. The test actually started at 7 pm, so Ben was only 8 hours off.

However, we also have another winner! We noticed that one contestant had actually made a better guess than Ben. Vladimir Mischenko from the Ukraine also got the day right, and his guess was 11:07:23!  (Only 7 minutes from Ben's guess. They must both have the same astrologer, or something). The only problem with Vladimir's guess was that he thought the test would start on April the 14th, 2009!

Of course, one could argue that this is our fault for providing a web input form where the default year selected was 2009 - pretty silly for a contest that was launched in 2010. But we prefer to pretend that it was by design. We just wanted to see if people were alert. However, we feel a bit sorry for Vladimir also, so we have decided to give him an iPod touch as a consolation prize (you will also be notified by email, Vladimir).

To all our users we would like to say thank you for your support in making Load Impact the world's most popular load testing tool! Expect to see some nice new features and improvements to the service this year. We are, for instance, very excited about our new load generator application (contact support@loadimpact.com if you want to try it out early) that is being beta-tested right now. It is programmable using Lua and which will allow fully dynamic transactions. More about that later.

Thank you everybody, and don't forget: load testing makes your site better!