5 Best Practices to Avoid a Site Meltdown

Production Load Testing
Everybody tests their website, right? This may be true, but the real question is whether those tests truly validate that a website will perform well under peak traffic. The only way to know this is to simulate the expected number of visitors and their journeys through the site with real internet traffic in production. Production environments are larger scale and depend on different external systems than a staging or test environment. Testing services that use transactions generated from the cloud can replicate the conditions that actual shoppers will experience in production. This type of load testing models customer behavior and the ways in which users continually arrive on a site during peak events, no matter if on a laptop, smartphone or tablet.