Note this new sampler: "Web Driver Sampler automates the execution and collection of Performance metrics on the Browser (client-side). A large part of performance testing, up to this point, has been on the server side of things. However, with the advancement of technology, HTML5, JS and CSS improvements, more and more logic and behavior have been pushed down to the client. This adds to the overall perceived performance of website/webapp, but this metric is not available in JMeter."
See: https://code.google.com/p/jmeter-plugins/wiki/WebDriverTutorial That might add a missing feature highly requested. -SG On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Adrian Speteanu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a different approach to this. But there's a lot of background to > it, > which can't be covered answering a specific question (how to measure X), > all of it resumes to: you should not look for shortcuts and instead should > do things the right way. Measuring rendering times is the complete > opposite > of doing things that way. Its a dead-end, because it is too hard to track > and fully cover. Are you going to test on a large enough number of > PC/Mac/Linux hardware configurations in conjunction with a large number of > software versions (OS, browsers, other plugins that might affect > rendering)? Is your test matrix going to be comprehensive enough? Usually > its not. > > The approach to front-end should be different because UI has different > specific problems. I use YSlow!, a plugin for Firebug that works on > Firefox. It shows "missing optimisations", and gives a good starting point > for a development team to obtain the best rendering time for their > project. > With JMeter, you create the load on the server side and with one desktop > machine, you evaluate what will be the most probable user experience > during > high traffic and then improve that. Its the best thing you can do, and the > only honest approach to this problem. You can still make measurement > taking > several samples from tools like Firebug, Chrome's dev tools and so on, but > what's the point? Are you trying to benchmark the renderer or your server > application? If its the second, there are more questions you ask. > > Regards, > Adrian S > > > > > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:28 PM, nmq <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi everyone > > > > I have been told that JMeter does not measure page load or rendering > > time. > > Does anyone know of a roundabout way of making approximations using > > JMeter, > > which would be fairly close to actual times. > > > > Or if anyone knows of a better tool that can be used to achieve this? > > > > The AUT is a secured web portal giving access to a limited number of > > users > > and is document intensive. I need to measure the page load time of the > > Documents page which displays the first 100 documents and as the user > > scrolls down, renders the next 100 and so forth. > > > > Any tips or help for load/performance testing would be appreciated. > > > > Thanks > > Sam > > -- Providing quality services to the appreciated contractors and customers: * Applango * Arad Technologies * Astea Israel * BioControl Medical * Biometrix * Cognifit * Earlysense * Given Imaging * IBM WorkLight * Idit Software Solutions * In-House * Israeli Ministry of Finance * Menora Insurance * Mentors Channel * Mominis * Ness Technologies * ORAM International * Partner-Orange * Peer39 * Physio-Logic * Pneumedicare * RealCommerce * Safecharge International * Shaker * Strauss-Water Tami4 * Tact-Matrix * TaKaDu * Tel-Aviv University * Tescom-ONE * TesTeam * Tuttnauer * Verix * Visionix * Visionsense * WinBuyer * XMPie-Xerox * Special notice: In 2013, the entire operation of Ginsbourg.Com is being upgraded to cloud-based quality service. Regards, Shay Ginsbourg Regulatory & Testing Affairs Consultant WWW.GINSBOURG.COM Providing Regulatory, Medical & Performance Testing services since 2008: * IEC 62304 Medical Device Software Life Cycle * IEEE 829 Software Test Documentation * ISO 14971 Medical Device Risk Management * FDA 21 CFR Part 11 Software Validation * CE Medical Device Directive 93/42/EEC dossier * IEC 60601-1:2005 3rd ED PEMS - Medical Electrical Equipment * End-to-end verification, validation, and testing (VV&T) * FDA and CE submissions * Open source free testing tools implementation * Functionality and regression testing * Software Performance & Load testing * Software Testing Advanced Automation * Medical Software Verification & Validation * Medical Device Verification & Validation * Medical Device Regulatory Submission * Organizational Regulatory Qualification * Formerly QA Manager of LoadRunner at Mercury Interactive M.Sc. cum laude in Bio-Medical Engineering M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering Work: +972(0)3-5185873 Mobile: +972(0)54-6690915 Email: [email protected] Visit my personal page on LinkedIn at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/shayginsbourg Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
