Stress Testing

The Stress Testing feature allows you to evaluate how a website performs under various load conditions by customizing the number of workers and maximum requests per second. This helps simulate high traffic scenarios and pinpoint performance bottlenecks.

Key Features

• Customizable Workers and Request Rate: Adjust the number of parallel --workers and the --max-reqs-per-sec to simulate different traffic loads.
• Selective Asset Crawling: Disable crawling of selected assets with --disable-javascript, --disable-styles, --disable-fonts, --disable-images and --disable-files to focus exclusively on HTML pages, reducing the load on non-essential assets.
• Cache Bypass with Random Query Parameters: You can use --add-random-query-params to bypass caching mechanisms, ensuring the server handles each request as unique.

Be careful not to cause a DoS attack

Please be considerate and do not use this tool for DoS attacks!

Be especially careful with the --workers and --max-reqs-per-sec parameters - ideally only change them if you want to consciously perform stress testing on your own website, or non-production website.

💡What would you improve?

If you have ideas how to improve stress testing features, don’t be afraid to send a feature request (to desktop application, or to command-line interface) with a suggestion for improvement. We are happy to consider and implement it if it will benefit more users.