Home About Training Blog Contact Us Posted on November 29, 2012 by Kevin Faustino When launching a web application, you want to ensure that it will be able to handle the load of users accessing the site. We can get an idea of how it will perform by using a benchmarking tool. While there are many popular tools such as ab (Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool) used by developers today, I want to introduce you to Siege . Siege is an HTTP load testing and benchmarking utility. It has a similar interface to ab, which will make transitioning to the tool almost seamless. Also, instead of testing against a single URL, Siege allows you to test against multiple. This allows for a more real-world simulation of how a user would use your system. If you are running Mac OS X, you can install Siege via homebrew by running the following: brew install siege To benchmark URL...