Three Load Tests You Must Run

The concept of load testing seems simple. You just run a test against your app, API or site and see how it performs under a simulated user load. But the reality is slightly more complex. There are three load tests you must run to optimize performance.

We’ve learned the three load tests through our experience helping thousands of customers, and now you can benefit from those insights.

We recommend you run tests in this order:

1. Baseline - Run a baseline test anytime there’s a new project, a major update, or any other significant change to code. It’s a low-impact way to identify any major performance issues without in-depth performance analysis and tuning.

2. Stress - As the name implies, here you’re trying to test your project’s performance under stress, increasing the load step by step. With a stress test, you learn what could happen when everything goes wrong (or very very right) - how your site or app performs when a huge level of users visit.

3. Ongoing “TEAR” testing - After the 2 tests, we suggest you continually verify your project’s performance with load tests. As with every test, our customer success team recommends you “TEAR” into your load tests. TEAR means Test -> Evaluate -> Adjust -> Repeat.

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