{"id":5515,"date":"2018-12-11T21:16:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T02:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/?p=5515"},"modified":"2018-12-11T21:16:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T02:16:09","slug":"load-testing-blunders-of-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/load-testing-blunders-of-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Load Testing Blunders of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Websites fail for many reasons. One of the most preventable is due to unexpected load. And it can happen to big sites and small. Now that we\u2019ve almost made it safely to 2019, let\u2019s take a look back at some possible load testing blunders of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The story is familiar. A site does little or no load testing. The site experiences heavy load. The site goes down. Not surprisingly, some of the blunders this year involved politics. The caps are from the headline &#8211; not from us!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/social-media\/youtube-down-suffers-rare-outage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube is back after crashing for users around the world<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/socialnewsdaily.com\/74534\/the-infowars-website-temporarily-crashed-and-alex-jones-thinks-its-a-liberal-conspiracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The InfoWars Website Crashed and Alex Jones Thinks it\u2019s a Liberal Conspiracy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.ie\/sport\/football\/2976792\/liam-miller-match-ticket-website-crash-demand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ticketing website crashes due to massive demand<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/06\/30\/gun-registration-site-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GUN REGISTRATION SITE CRASHES AS DEADLINE LOOMS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You know what to do. 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Not surprisingly, some of the blunders this year involved<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/load-testing-blunders-of-2018\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[128],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-user","4":"post-5515","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-blog","9":"post_tag-cloud-load-testing"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.12 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Load Testing Blunders of 2018 had a Political Twist - RedLine13<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Load Testing Blunders of 2018 had a political twist. Websites are not prepared for a sudden uptick. 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