How do you test the performance of your web site?
I wanted to get a feel for what tools people are using to test the performance of their website. My questions are:
- Do you check page-load times?
- Do you dig in to see which files are taking the time
- How do you track down a page that uses a lot of memory
- How do you track down a high CPU consuming page
I don’t want to list any possible tools as I’d like to hear what people are using without me putting any suggestions out.
If I don’t see some being mentioned, I’ll be sure to bring it up so we have a holistic view of the tools.
Look forward to seeing what people use.
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Anonymous
September 10, 2008
I tried to use ms wcat to see how much req/sec can i get, but tool is too complicated, and I always get some errors. Documentation doesn't say nothing. MSDN has too many pages about it, and it's really hard to find step-by-step tutorial on how to set up some simple test environment.Anonymous
September 10, 2008
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September 10, 2008
For server-side numbers, I typically rely on page trace information. For client-side stuff (which is much more fuzzy), I usually use FireBug.Anonymous
September 10, 2008
I am constantly using Redgate's ANTS Profiler to check my programs.Anonymous
September 10, 2008
Don't forget the ViewState... I've already seen pages with more than 2mo of ViewState data...Anonymous
September 10, 2008
I'm using WinDbg to debug my ASP.NET Application. My application isn't throwing exceptions. I'd like know how I capture the Request Stack (HttpRuntime, HttpApplication, Handler, Controls, etc.) (via !clrStack) in WinDbg. When view threads (!threads), WinDbg always said that all of them are OS thread or to fail to load stack trace. I'm loading SOS.dll and mscorwks.dll, but the problem continues.Anonymous
September 10, 2008
David, In order to capture the request stack, you would need to have the program break at that time. The easiest way to get this information would be the use the Managed Stack Explorer. You can find it at: http://www.codeplex.com/MSEAnonymous
September 10, 2008
A mixture of fiddler / firebug / yslow and wireshark. Server side - logparser, ANTS tools and perf mon.Anonymous
September 10, 2008
I liked tool called Homer which still can be used with up to Windows 2003. Unfortunately does not work with Win2008 due to perfomance monitoring API change I would guess. Here is URL (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/itsolutions/intranet/downloads/webstres.mspx?mfr=true). Easy to setup. Full GUI (unlike WCAT), multiple client support etc etc etc. I don't understand why Microsoft discontinued this wonderfull product (probably becouse it completes with paid-for VS Team Suite tool)Anonymous
September 10, 2008
We use ANTS, Firebug/YSlow and we setup MRTG getting perfcounterlogs to constantly monitor our serversAnonymous
September 10, 2008
Here is a list of nice tools to help test your web site... http://tinyurl.com/5gsse6Anonymous
September 10, 2008
I use Firebug to watch the scripts and styles and the rendered size of that page . Also I watch the ViewState and the controls size by enabling page trace .Anonymous
September 10, 2008
Firebug/YSlow for client side. If it's database-driven and the calls are slow we use SQL profiler. I haven't found anything that's easy to use that help with resource usage or load testing.Anonymous
September 10, 2008
My site has over 20k concurrent users at any one time. I pretty much do the following: Religiously check performance of all sprocs and partitioned views and of sql server as the db grows. Everything is gzipped, without this, I would go out of business. My asp.net code is fairly simple and cannot be really optimized further - but I have taken a great deal of time to reduce http calls by using css spriting for all structurural images and menus. I use a CDN for images as this enables browsers to make parallel usage of http ports, faster load time, and expires headers are set. I could go on - personally I feel that the bottlenecks are hardly ever to so with asp.net, start at sql server (and keep at it) and focus on reducing packet sizes and network calls. Any page that tends to use a lot of resources ends up getting cached as output or where poss the data is cached.Anonymous
September 10, 2008
I use these tools - Fiddler Firebug and YSlow IIS Tracer - http://iismonitor.motobit.com/ Visual Studio 2008 ProfilerAnonymous
September 11, 2008
What I am using to do web pages tests is called "HttpWatch" unfortunatly it can be used only with IE. It has planty of information that gives you back for the page loading process and the web server.Anonymous
September 11, 2008
I would recommend this free online tool: http://Site-Perf.com/ It measure loading speed of page and it's requisites (images/js/css) like browsers do and shows nice detailed chart. Also very useful thing is that this tool is able to verify network quality of your server (packet loss level and ping delays).Anonymous
September 14, 2008
I use IISPools tool from http://www.hoststools.com it helps to find the CPU usage etc. It is better to place the site into a separate pool before the analysis.Anonymous
September 18, 2008
I use firebug and dot tracer from jet brains and we use perfmon to have a look on how our web servers are doing.Anonymous
November 24, 2008
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August 07, 2010
I used this site to check http://www.check-info.com , there have many tools for webmasters