{"id":4151,"date":"2017-02-01T11:31:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T16:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/?p=4151"},"modified":"2017-02-01T11:31:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T16:31:58","slug":"running-url-load-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/running-url-load-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Running a URL Load Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1260\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mu66l3YmHdg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this video we will demonstrate how to run a simple URL test to gauge performance of a website. If you&#8217;re new to load testing, this is the easiest test to run on RedLine13.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #cf2014;\">Getting Started<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>When running a URL test on RedLine13, begin by logging into your account, hit &#8220;Start Test&#8221;, and then click the &#8220;Simple Test&#8221; tab. Next, begin to enter the parameters of your load test.\u00a0In this example we will have 100 virtual users access StackOverflow. We have a 3 second ramp-up-time, a minimum delay of 500 ms, and a maximum delay of 10,000 ms:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4152\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/URL-Load-Testing-RedLine13.png\" alt=\"url-load-testing-redline13\" width=\"1100\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/URL-Load-Testing-RedLine13.png 1100w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/URL-Load-Testing-RedLine13-300x95.png 300w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/URL-Load-Testing-RedLine13-1024x324.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/URL-Load-Testing-RedLine13-768x243.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #cf2014;\">Configure Servers and Run Test<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Next, expand the &#8220;Advanced Cloud Options&#8221; tab.\u00a0Here you control your load agents. You can select the type\/size\/number\/location of the servers, edit security groups, and more. In this example we will be testing on two m3.medium servers in Germany, with 50 users per server:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4153\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/URL-Load-Testing-RedLine13_ACO.png\" alt=\"url-load-testing-redline13_aco\" width=\"1100\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/URL-Load-Testing-RedLine13_ACO.png 1100w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/URL-Load-Testing-RedLine13_ACO-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/URL-Load-Testing-RedLine13_ACO-1024x726.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/URL-Load-Testing-RedLine13_ACO-768x545.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If needed, we can expand the &#8220;Advanced Simple Test Options&#8221; to add and GET\/POST parameters. Finally, name your test and hit &#8220;Start Test&#8221; to begin. The servers will spin up and your test will begin shorty.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4154\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/URL-Load-Testing-RedLine13_.png\" alt=\"url-load-testing-redline13_\" width=\"1100\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/URL-Load-Testing-RedLine13_.png 1100w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/URL-Load-Testing-RedLine13_-300x127.png 300w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/URL-Load-Testing-RedLine13_-1024x435.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/URL-Load-Testing-RedLine13_-768x326.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #cf2014;\">Analyze Results<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Once the test has completed we can then view our results.\u00a0Here we are presented with an overview and breakdown of everything that happened during the test. You will find:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Response\/request metrics<\/li>\n<li>Percentile results (Pro)<\/li>\n<li>Overview metrics (threads per second, average thread elapsed time, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Error metrics (error response time, errors per second, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Load agent metrics (load agent CPU usage, bytes received\/transmitted, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Server output files (.tgz)<\/li>\n<li>+ more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this example we found that out of the 1,100 requests made, 99% were completed in 11.69 seconds. Some 100 pages were tested and our load test costed us only $0.17 cents in total, making it an affordable solution to test URLs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4155\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/URL-Load-Testing-RedLine13_metrics.png\" alt=\"url-load-testing-redline13_metrics\" width=\"1100\" height=\"909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/URL-Load-Testing-RedLine13_metrics.png 1100w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/URL-Load-Testing-RedLine13_metrics-300x248.png 300w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/URL-Load-Testing-RedLine13_metrics-1024x846.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/URL-Load-Testing-RedLine13_metrics-768x635.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video we will demonstrate how to run a simple URL test to gauge performance of a website. If you&#8217;re new to load testing, this is the easiest test to run on RedLine13. Getting Started When running a URL test on RedLine13, begin by logging into your account, hit &#8220;Start Test&#8221;, and then click the &#8220;Simple Test&#8221; tab. Next, begin to enter the parameters of your load test.\u00a0In this example we will have 100 virtual<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/running-url-load-test\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[316,318,532,546,550],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-user","4":"post-4151","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-blog","9":"post_tag-load-test","10":"post_tag-load-testing","11":"post_tag-url","12":"post_tag-web","13":"post_tag-website"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.12 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Running a URL Load Test - RedLine13<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/running-url-load-test\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Running a URL Load Test - RedLine13\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In this video we will demonstrate how to run a simple URL test to gauge performance of a website. If you&#8217;re new to load testing, this is the easiest test to run on RedLine13. Getting Started When running a URL test on RedLine13, begin by logging into your account, hit &#8220;Start Test&#8221;, and then click the &#8220;Simple Test&#8221; tab. Next, begin to enter the parameters of your load test.\u00a0In this example we will have 100 virtualRead More &rarr;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/running-url-load-test\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"RedLine13\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-02-01T16:31:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Untitled-drawing.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"487\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"333\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"RedLine13\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"RedLine13\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/running-url-load-test\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/running-url-load-test\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"RedLine13\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/4acbcdcb8a9c72ec5a274e69c0ebea28\"},\"headline\":\"Running a URL Load Test\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-02-01T16:31:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-02-01T16:31:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/running-url-load-test\/\"},\"wordCount\":309,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"load test\",\"Load Testing\",\"url\",\"web\",\"website\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Blog\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/running-url-load-test\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/running-url-load-test\/\",\"name\":\"Running a URL Load Test - RedLine13\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-02-01T16:31:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-02-01T16:31:58+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/running-url-load-test\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/running-url-load-test\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/running-url-load-test\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Running a URL Load Test\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"RedLine13\",\"description\":\"(Almost) Free Load Testing in the Cloud\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"RedLine13\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/cropped-rl13-header-logo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/cropped-rl13-header-logo.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":68,\"caption\":\"RedLine13\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/4acbcdcb8a9c72ec5a274e69c0ebea28\",\"name\":\"RedLine13\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b4c9a289323b21a01c3e940f150eb9b8c542587f1abfd8f0e1cc1ffc5e475514?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b4c9a289323b21a01c3e940f150eb9b8c542587f1abfd8f0e1cc1ffc5e475514?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"RedLine13\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/author\/user\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Running a URL Load Test - RedLine13","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/running-url-load-test\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Running a URL Load Test - RedLine13","og_description":"In this video we will demonstrate how to run a simple URL test to gauge performance of a website. If you&#8217;re new to load testing, this is the easiest test to run on RedLine13. Getting Started When running a URL test on RedLine13, begin by logging into your account, hit &#8220;Start Test&#8221;, and then click the &#8220;Simple Test&#8221; tab. Next, begin to enter the parameters of your load test.\u00a0In this example we will have 100 virtualRead More &rarr;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/running-url-load-test\/","og_site_name":"RedLine13","article_published_time":"2017-02-01T16:31:58+00:00","og_image":[{"width":487,"height":333,"url":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Untitled-drawing.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"RedLine13","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"RedLine13","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/running-url-load-test\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/running-url-load-test\/"},"author":{"name":"RedLine13","@id":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/4acbcdcb8a9c72ec5a274e69c0ebea28"},"headline":"Running a URL Load Test","datePublished":"2017-02-01T16:31:58+00:00","dateModified":"2017-02-01T16:31:58+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/running-url-load-test\/"},"wordCount":309,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/#organization"},"keywords":["load test","Load Testing","url","web","website"],"articleSection":["Blog"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/running-url-load-test\/","url":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/running-url-load-test\/","name":"Running a URL Load Test - RedLine13","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2017-02-01T16:31:58+00:00","dateModified":"2017-02-01T16:31:58+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/running-url-load-test\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/running-url-load-test\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/running-url-load-test\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Running a URL Load Test"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/","name":"RedLine13","description":"(Almost) Free Load Testing in the Cloud","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"RedLine13","url":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/cropped-rl13-header-logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/cropped-rl13-header-logo.jpg","width":300,"height":68,"caption":"RedLine13"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/4acbcdcb8a9c72ec5a274e69c0ebea28","name":"RedLine13","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b4c9a289323b21a01c3e940f150eb9b8c542587f1abfd8f0e1cc1ffc5e475514?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b4c9a289323b21a01c3e940f150eb9b8c542587f1abfd8f0e1cc1ffc5e475514?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"RedLine13"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/127.0.0.1"],"url":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/author\/user\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}