How to Prepare Your Website for Peak Traffic

In addition to third-party services, your applications likely traverse a complex delivery path that may include internet service providers, content delivery networks, desktops, mobile devices and browsers en route to anxious end users around the world.

Traditional, inside-the-firewall testing tools remain popular with Q&A and testing professionals. Unfortunately, these tools are built around an antiquated philosophy of generating load and measuring performance behind the firewall. This kind of internal testing only tells testers part of the story, because it only identifies problems rooted in a data center. Your end users don't live in data centers, of course. They’re located around the world, at the end of a long and complex web application delivery chain.