Load Impact Load Testing and Performance Testing

The web page analyzer has been updated with more features

Today we installed some updates for the new web page analyzer. These are the major changes we've made:

New top-of-page layout:

The new layout emphasizes the browser emulation feature of the analyzer. This feature makes our analyzer quite unique, as most analyzers have no emulation capability whatsoever, and of those few that do (we know of only one), the number of browser-specific, performance-affecting characteristics they emulate are not many.

New config parameter: client bandwidth limit

The client bandwidth parameter is configurable under the "Advanced settings" panel. Only premium users can change this parameter. The client bandwidth limit emulates a certain client bandwidth. The actual bandwidth used during the analysis will of course also be limited to the available bandwidth to (or from) the web server that is being tested - whichever of the two is lowest. The default setting is 10 Mbit/s bandwidth limitation for a test.

Load diagram:

We also made some small changes to the load diagram presentation. For compressed resources, we added information about the original, uncompressed file size in the mouseover tooltip:

Summary:

For the Summary section (below the load diagram) we added info about what browser emulation a test used, and a "Status:" line that shows whether the analysis ran to completion without any problems, or if it timed out or was aborted for some reason.