web server performance Archives

wrk – HTTP benchmarking tool

wrk is a modern HTTP benchmarking tool capable of generating significant load when run on a single multi-core CPU.

k6 is a modern load testing tool for developers and testers in the DevOps era.

AutoCannon is an HTTP/1.1 benchmarking tool written in Node.js. It seeks inspiration from wrk and wrk2.

bombardier is a command line HTTP(S) benchmarking tool. It uses fasthttp instead of Go’s default http library

Tsung is a multi-protocol distributed load testing tool to test the scalability and performances of IP based client/server applications.

Drill is a HTTP load testing application written in Rust. The main goal for this project is to build a really lightweight tool

Cassowary is a modern HTTP/S, intuitive & cross-platform load testing tool built in Go for developers, testers and sysadmins.

httperf is a tool that provides a flexible facility for generating various HTTP workloads and for measuring server performance.

FunkLoad is a functional and load Web tester whose main use cases are functional testing of Web projects.

ApacheBench (ab) is a tool for benchmarking your Apache Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server.

Siege is a multi-threaded regression test and benchmark utility. It can stress test a single URL with a user defined number of simulated users.

Apache JMeter is a Java desktop application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance.

Locust is an easy to use, scriptable and scalable performance testing tool.