We recently load tested SoftSlate Commerce to gauge its performance with a simulation of over 6,500 user sessions and 15,000 requests over the span of one hour.
The results demonstrated quite clearly that SoftSlate Commerce demands relatively little from the server resources. Our test plan of 15,000 page views in one hour caused the server's load average to peak at a safe 2.83. The memory demands from the Tomcat application server peaked at just 248 MB, with 3,776 independent user sessions at the peak.
Most importantly, the user experience was preserved even with this very high load. Across all 15,000 page views, the average response time from the server was a mere .603 seconds. The deviation of .402 seconds means that two-thirds of all requests took place in under one second. There were no failed requests encountered at all during the test.
For an analysis of the load test, follow this link:
SoftSlate Commerce Load Test Analysis
For a breakdown of the server's load average, Tomcat memory usage, and the number of Tomcat sessions at various points throughout the test, download this Excel spreadsheet:
SoftSlate Commerce Load Test Server Status Spreadsheet
To download the test plan used for the load test (Apache JMeter .jmx file), follow this link:
SoftSlate Commerce Load Test Test Plan
For a ZIP file with all the above documents, plus a log of the load test and more, click the following:
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