Load Testing from the cloud doesn’t work because it is imperative to test from your end user’s perspective in order to meet their expectations. The reason we load test is to ensure that people using your web site can successfully access the pages and complete whatever kind of transaction they need, regardless of the number of people on the site (called the load). There are two important points to make regarding this view of load testing.
The first is that what matters most is the customer experience — not what data centers see. The second point is that customer’s expectations of a web site do not change during peak usage. Customer expectations are very high: 47 percent of consumers expect a web page to load in two seconds or less. Furthermore, 58 percent of mobile phone users expect web sites to load almost as quickly as or faster on their mobile phone than their PC.
Download the white paper entitled “Why Load Testing from the Cloud Doesn’t Work” to understand what kind of load testing will help you find and resolve website issues before your customers do.