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Best way to stress test a website

This may be the wrong question to ask but, what’s the best way to replicate a large load on an asp.net web application? Is there an easy way to simulate many requests on particular pages? Or is the best thing to use a profiler to track a single request and then work out from that if the performance is ok?

It would be good to know how well a web app works with a…

Fixed Performing a Stress Test on Web Application? #dev #it #asnwer

Performing a Stress Test on Web Application?

In the past, I used Microsoft Web Application Stress Tool and Pylot to stress test web applications. I’d written a simple home page, login script, and site walkthrough (in an ecommerce site adding a few items to a cart and checkout).

Just hitting the homepage hard with a handful of developers would almost always locate a major problem. More…