Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool
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(ab
) is a nice tool to test performance on sites delivered by HTTP. If the site you're about to test is placed behind a login, follow these steps to successfully use ab
on it.
ab
by appending the pairs of cookies name and value like this: cookie_name_1=cookie_value_1;cookie_name_2=cookie_value_2;cookie_name_3=cookie_value_3 ...ab -n 100 -c 10 -C $cookie_string http://your_site/admin/site-to-load
. man ab
to find out about -n
and -c
.