Recommendations for Web application performance benchmarks

Question

I'm about to start testing an intranet web application. Specifically, I've to determine the application's performance.

Please could someone suggest formal/informal standards for how I can judge the application's performance.

Answer 1

Use some tool for stress and load testing. If you're using Java take a look at JMeter. It provides different methods to test you application performance. You should focus on:

• Response time: How fast your application is running for normal requests. Test some read/write use case
• Load test: How your application behaves in high traffic times. The tool will submit several requests (you can configure that properly) during a period of time.
• Stress test: Do your application can operate during a long period of time? This test will push your application to the limits

Start with this, if you're interested, there are other kinds of tests.