Paessler Webserver Stress Tool Discloses Flaws in Web Infrastructures
Autorisation de publication: 12.06.2007
Consumers now consider the internet as being highly influential at every stage of the shopping process, from first awareness to final decision making, whether the purchase is online or offline says DoubleClick in its recent survey Touchpoints IV Europe*.
According to the study 35% of Britons obtain further information via websites and 69% use a search engine to gather product or service information followed by an internet search. Word-of-mouth advice from friends was a consistently high influence factor on purchase decisions - and those with the greatest influence on others' purchasing decisions relied heavily on the web for their own information.
Stress tests critical to success say Paessler
For all e-enterprises a well designed and reliable web page has to be part and parcel of the marketing mix – especially as the online presence often establishes that vitally important, initial customer contact. A wrongly conceived web server and overburdened pages that take too long to load and respond, are both frustrating and an unnecessary obstacle for customers and provider. Network monitoring company Paessler are firmly of the belief that only those companies that perform appropriate stress tests in advance will receive the vital information to allow them to optimize the web infrastructure for profit.
In addition to text and images or video, a successful Internet page today offers customers graphically sophisticated product tours, downloads or facilities for customer feedback via chats, blogs, or forums. In the wake of Web 2.0 applications online interaction is gaining in importance and will, in the long run, provide for a better customer retention.
As connection to the internet becomes less expensive IMRG (Interactive Media Group**) says it expects internet purchases - which reached almost £3.5 billion in April 2007 - will rise by 40% in this year over 2006.
Enterprises using state-of-the-art methods in their online presence would be well advised to use an appropriate test tool at the conception stage to put the technical infrastructure to test - from hardware to web server to database. Paessler's Webserver Stress Tool, for example, can simulate the access of up to 10,000 users concurrently placing requests on the web server and generating a utilization of up to 500 Mbit/s and up to 1 million page views per hour.
This software is capable of simulating surf behaviour as it can be expected from real users and individually adjust it as necessary. Individually programmed scripts provide for defining particular click sequences of a user in order to test certain transactions on the web site intensively. Login information can, for instance, also be passed to simulate the login of users on a portal and different visitor scenarios.
The conclusive results are subsequently available to the user in the form of tables and graphs in different formats for evaluation and analysis. The software, for example, measures the time span between the simulated first click and the completely loaded page including all graphics (click time). The achieved server bandwidth for downloading files or the bandwidth available for each user are also made transparent by this solution.
An in-depth insight in to the functional setup of the Web Server Stress Tool can be found at: http://www.paessler.com/webstress/sample_performance_tests
Webserver Stress Tool can be downloaded for testing free of charge from http://www.paessler.com/webstress/download. Commercial licenses start at €199.95 euros plus VAT (if applicable).
A propos de Paessler AG
Fondée en 1997, la société Paessler AG dont le siège se trouve à
Nuremberg (Allemagne) s'est spécialisée dans le développement de
logiciels alliant performance et facilité d'utilisation dans les
domaines de la surveillance réseau, essais de charge et analyses.
PRTG
Network Monitor surveille la disponibilité de systèmes, de services et
d'applications ainsi que l'utilisation de la bande passante dans des
réseaux. PRTG est un programme compatible Cisco, et certifié pour
l'analyse de données Netflow. Webserver Stress Tool est une application
pour des essais de charge de serveurs web et d'infrastructures web.
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compte des clients dans tous les secteurs: diverses entreprises de
toute dimension allant des TPE à des PME jusqu'aux grands groupes
internationaux. Les produits de Paessler sont utilisés dans le monde
entier par des administrateurs de système, opérateurs de site web,
fournisseurs d'accès Internet et autres spécialistes de l'informatique.
Chaque jour, plus de 150.000 installations de Paessler AG sont
employées à travers le monde. Des versions gratuites de démonstration
ainsi que des informations complémentaires sont disponibles en ligne
sur le site www.fr.paessler.com.
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