Web Load and Performance Testing
Gomez Reality Load XF — On-Demand Realistic Load and Performance Testing from Browser to Data Center
Reality Load XF is an easy-to-use, on-demand load and performance testing solution built to ensure the success of critical Web-based business initiatives. Unlike other solutions that don’t realistically simulate load from the end-users’ perspective, Reality Load XF generates scalable, high volume, data center-based and real-world load from thousands of Gomez Last Mile™ desktops around the globe. The result is the most accurate measurement of response times and end-user experiences under load.
Reality Load XF enables organizations to proactively find and resolve more Web application performance, availability and quality problems across the entire Web application delivery chain than any other solution. With Reality Load XF you can test application components delivered from both your data center and across the Internet, including Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), news feeds, ads, analytics, bill payment and ecommerce platforms. Some of the problems uncovered include:
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When to Use Gomez Reality Load XF
Reality Load XF enables organizations to deploy new Web-based initiatives with confidence. Use Reality Load when:
- Launching marketing and sales campaigns
- Rolling out, new Websites, applications and features
- Planning for seasonal and holiday spikes in web traffic
- Upgrading or virtualizing infrastructures
- Deploying new mobile initiatives
Why Gomez’s Reality Load XF?
Find and fix user experience and performance problems that are undetectable with other solutions
- Gomez’s “outside-in” testing approach finds problems missed by lab-based “behind the firewall” solutions
- Gomez Last Mile™ testing finds problems across the entire Web application delivery chain that cloud or data center-only solutions miss
- Provides the only true picture of Web performance from the end-user perspective
Most accurate and real-world Web load and performance testing
- Test from where your end-users are located (new markets, top revenue-generating locations, popular regions, etc) by selecting from over 120,000+ load generating consumer-grade desktops
- Measure performance as your real-users experience it from the world’s largest Web load and performance testing network
- Uncover geographical response time discrepancies that may surface under load before real users are impacted
Improve your bottom-line
- Eliminate the expense of building a large testing infrastructure
- Ensure success of critical Web-based business initiatives
- Increase customer satisfaction with improved Website performance
Load test your way
- On-demand flexibility, ease of use and scalability
- Leverage Gomez’s on-demand resources and best practices for agile, responsive and timely testing
- Self-service and managed-service deployment options
Key Reality Load XF Features and Capabilities
Combines high volume application load and performance testing with broad geographic experience testing
- Test across geographies, measuring Web application performance at peak loads from your end-users’ perspective
- Select test locations from among 120,000+ real, consumer-grade desktops around the world
Test both internal and external Web application components across the entire Web application delivery chain
- Easily record and reuse tests to emulate the range of end-user activities that load and performance testing strives to re-create
- Record and concurrently run multiple transactions to simulate real-user behavior.
- Build test scripts once and run them for both load and performance testing (the Gomez Last Mile™ network) and ongoing application monitoring (Gomez Active Monitoring)
Detailed, easy-to-understand analysis and reporting
- Track load levels, performance and availability at the test, script page and object level during and after testing
- Generate standard reports and charts as well as granular raw data (down to the host and object-level) from across the Gomez Network
- Drill down into specific load problem areas all the way to object-level response time contributors from end-user desktops on the Gomez Last Mile™ network. This provides unparalleled insight into real end-user experience by geography and ISP.
Realistically Load Test your Mobile Web sites and applications from the cloud
- Easily record mobile web and application transactions across 5.000+ device profiles
- Generate high volume load from multiple locations outside your datacenter to find mobile infrastructure breaking points
- Understand how end-users experience your mobile web applications during peak traffic times
Easily Configure Tests and Scripts — Run multiple transactions within a single test to simulate real-world scenarios.
Geographic Perspective with Gomez's True Last Mile™ Test Network — Reality Load XF's interface allows an intuitive selection of Last Mile geographies to accurately test Website performance as experienced by real-users.
Flexible Test Result Reporting — View test results, including trend data, object-level data and waterfall charts in a variety of formats.
What Customers Are Saying
The performance of our Websites is key to profitability, especially during the summer season. Gomez’s solution helped us find and fix performance issues that other load testing approaches might have missed and then launch our new sites with confidence.
Charlie Coniglio, Vice President of Marketing and eCommerce, Thrifty Dollar Worldwide Inc., a car rental agency
Gomez validated our preparedness for peak traffic volumes so we can deliver on our promises and, to date, the load test results have been a very accurate reflection of system performance in live production.
SilverCarrot Inc., a performance-based lead generation firm
Web site speed and reliability are critical to successful e-commerce and given the richness and complexity of our new Web site, being proactive about testing was paramount. Gomez’s “real-world” load test provided us with the confidence we needed going into the busy holiday shopping season.
Kate Goodman, Director of E-Commerce, Talbot’s
At Brooks Brothers, our primary focus is delivering an outstanding customer experience. Despite a challenging retail environment, our Web business continues to experience solid growth. One of the key contributors to this growth has been the role that Web load and performance testing has played. It’s our early alert mechanism and an investment that is every bit as strategic as the Web site itself.
Brian Dean, Vice President of Direct, Brooks Brothers
