From the course: Performance Testing Foundations
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Single user tools
From the course: Performance Testing Foundations
Single user tools
- [Instructor] Tools are an important part of performance testing, so let's take a quick survey of some of the tools out there. There are many more tools than we can cover in one short video, but I want to show you a few examples. Now, we've already looked at this site here, this webpagetest.org. And this is an example of a tool that lets you kind of analyze how a site performs out of the context of load testing. So it doesn't really let you scale up the number of virtual users hitting your site, but it can give you some interesting information about pages on your site. We've already seen how to use this and some of the different options that they have. We can look at some advanced options as well, where we could capture network packets, and you know, do some different things like this. And they've got a bunch of different options and settings on here that are worth playing around with. Another similar tool to that is…
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