Load testing

Our tailored web site Load Testing services give you independent assurance in your web site's performance and capabilities, providing fast, cost-effective advice about how they can cope with high levels of traffic and usage.

Launching a new web site or even just making amendments or enhancements to an existing one can be a risky business for any organisation. With significant time, money and effort being put behind the changes, failure can affect both revenue and reputation. In order to mitigate these risks, Load Testing of your web site is essential.

By simulating, hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of simultaneous users accessing your site in real-life scenarios, our Load Testing services enable the early detection of, and response to, performance problems. We work with you to identify users' key usage patterns and to establish appropriate testing objectives and load levels.

Load Testing a web site can be expensive, time consuming and confusing – but not with us. We've revolutionised the Load Testing market with a powerful service that makes pre or post production testing a straightforward event, providing clear-cut answers about the capacity constraints of your web site.

Key Benefits:

Affordable: No license required; with online access any number of people can log in and observe or run tests.
Flexible: Tailored usage and pricing models – we provide 24 hour test windows during which you can run as many tests as you like against any number of sites.
Straightforward: Let us know the user journeys to test and we will write the scripts. Our portal effectively self populates with a portfolio of ready to run testing scripts.
Powerful: Through fast and effective iterative testing, watch results come in live, make infrastructure configuration changes, re-test and compare results.

With unparalleled expertise in scripting dynamic transactions for many of the world's largest web sites we would be delighted to learn more about your testing needs.

Service highlights:

Real time monitoring: When you're running a test it is critical that you understand how your site is performing. Is the site responding correctly or are errors being returned? Do they correspond with behaviour you are observing? Our Load Testing allows you to do all of this whilst the test is still running, enabling a rapid test-tune cycle – if you discover a problem mid-way through a test then you can fix it and re-run the test immediately to determine how successful the change has been.
Test from wherever you want to: Our Load Testing is external and accessed via a web portal. This means that you can run the tests from the office, your home or wherever you want to. This feature is particularly useful if you are testing out of hours, or need to run tests at short notice.
Scripting done for you: Creating the scripts for a load test can be a time consuming process and often requires specialist knowledge. We take your business processes and turn them into scripts for you. Scripts can be as simple or as complex as you like, for example to reflect whether you just want your users to browse your site, or create a basket and purchase products.
No hardware or software requirement: A dedicated test infrastructure and licensed software is often required. This takes time and significant resources to set up and install, which may not be available or justified. We solve all of these issues by hosting the capability externally.
Unlimited testing: During the Load Testing period you can execute as many load tests as you want to, up to your chosen number of concurrent users. There is no maximum number of test runs and no minimum time between tests. This means that you are able to achieve maximum return on your investment in load testing.