Prepare for your upcoming traffic peaks - like FIFA World Cup 2018

Run load tests, ratcheting up the test size until your site’s performance degrades, adjust, and repeat. Keep trying to overwhelm your site with traffic and simulated, virtual users (VUs). Those peak tests help you with momentary, brief traffic peaks, like on Black Friday or Cyber Monday.

But what happens when traffic goes up and stays up - for a month of the FIFA World Cup - or as a matter of course? Those tests might not help you plan for a sustained load that lasts much longer.

To better test that, you need to not just be consistent, but to be continuously testing. Use LoadImpact to create a testing script and run it frequently, even daily. This helps you better gauge how your site performs over time.

The best approach: integrate load testing into your continuous delivery and continuous integration (CD / CI) processes so you’re continually ensuring maximum performance from your site.

Want to read more on this topic? Check out the full blog post here