Is it possible to test a php site’s performance for hundred thousands of users before it actually achieves that user base?
What are the tools? Can it really be realistically judged based on these tools?
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Is it possible to test a php site’s performance for hundred thousands of users before it actually achieves that user base?
What are the tools? Can it really be realistically judged based on these tools?
xl-t’s suggestion of apache bench (ab) is good for quickly pounding on a script or two. That’s a good place to start.
There’s also siege, which is a little more sophisticated.
If you want to get fancy, and have easily repeatable tests, you should have a look at jmeter. The learning curve is a little steep at first, but it can model/simulate a huge number of scenarios. It’s got a GUI, but the GUI be configured to run the tests from a remote box. Ideally, you’d use a server that’s close to your web app’s server.
Running any tests from your local machine is likely to benchmark your network connection rather than your application.