Web server benchmarking is the process of estimating a
web server
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performance in order to find if the server can serve sufficiently high workload.
Key parameters
The performance is usually measured in terms of:
*Number of requests that can be served per second (depending on the type of request, etc.);
*Latency response time in milliseconds for each new connection or request;
*Throughput in bytes per second (depending on file size, cached or not cached content, available network bandwidth, etc.).
The measurements must be performed under a varying load of clients and requests per client.
Tools for benchmarking
Load testing (stress/performance testing) a web server can be performed using automation/analysis tools such as:
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Apache JMeter, an open-source
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load testing tool
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ApacheBench (or ab), a command line program bundled with
Apache HTTP Server
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Siege
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, an open-source web-server load testing and benchmarking tool
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Wrk, an open-source
C load testing tool
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Locust
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, an open-source
Python load testing tool
Web application benchmarks
Web application benchmarks measure the performance of
application server
An application server is a server that hosts applications or software that delivers a business application through a communication protocol. For a typical web application, the application server sits behind the web servers.
An application ser ...
s and database servers used to host
web application
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s.
TPC-W was a common benchmark emulating an online bookstore with synthetic workload generation.
References
External links
*Microsoft'
patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance for Web ApplicationsStress tools to test your Web server
at Microsoft
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's knowledge base
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Benchmarks (computing)