If you want to reduce the risk of downtime, improve deployment quality and increase overall customer satisfaction, then you need to make sure that your websites are up, running and loading fast. Web Performance Tester is an application that can help you carry out a performance test on your web pages and provide you with detailed reports about their performance.

Following a quick and straightforward setup, you are welcomed by a structured interface that displays an extensive tutorial from the main window. Therefore, you should not hesitate to check the documentation available if you have not used this type of software solutions before.

The highlight of the application stems from the clean and conclusive reports it can provide you. In fact, the program enables you to quickly view a summary of the web pages that could use troubleshooting via a checklist in the Executive Summary and Performance. It goes without saying that the app also provides info about page load time and other metrics specific to performance testing.

Before you can proceed to test the websites' performance, first you need to do a recording of the web page you want to analyze. You can rest assured that the task is straightforward and entails opening the website so that the app can auto-detect the network settings.

In case you want to perform a real-browser Load Test, then you need to create a configuration and make sure that you have the adequate hardware for the task. On a side note, performing a real-browser test entails using additional computers. If you want to learn more about the metrics from the server being tested, then you can install server monitoring agents. Afterwards, you can run the test and analyze the results.

All in all, if you notice that something in your online business is squeaking and you suspect it has something to do with the performance of your websites, then Web Performance Tester can provide you with the tools to test this hypothesis and hence, determine whether it is time for an upgrade.