Best Practices for Load Testing

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Want to understand how your website handles traffic? Need to ensure your new site will stand up to the traffic spikes on your current site? Want to ensure your application will keep responding under the load of an upcoming marketing promotion? Load testing your application is the best way to handle these scenarios.

There are several different load testing platforms out there, from full SaaS providers to do-it-yourself options. And there are different ways to approach load testing philosophically: Should you test your site on a single server to understand more about how it scales? Or should you test your site on a full production replica environment? This white paper will dive into these questions.