Rashmi
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CommentsBlitz vs Loader.io vs Locust
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Build bulletproof, scalable solutions with Blitz - a simple and fun service for load testing web apps and APIs in the cloud. Blitz offers powerful yet simple capabilities including continuous monitoring, performance testing and remediation. Blitz enables you to instantly burst up to 50,000 concurrent users against your app in seconds from multiple points of presence around the world. | Loader.io is a free load testing service that allows you to stress test your web-apps/apis with thousands of concurrent connections. | Locust is an easy-to-use, distributed, user load testing tool. Intended for load testing web sites (or other systems) and figuring out how many concurrent users a system can handle. |
Complex transactions- Whether you want to test a web page or a complex transaction , Blitz makes it easy for you to determine the number of users you can support.;Detailed feedback- Get detailed statistics and feedback in real time, and in plain English;Plugins- With our extension for Chrome or add-on for Firefox , just navigating to a webpage and run a performance test. Blitz takes care of the cookies, authentication and all the other underlying complexities.;Automation- With the Ruby GEM and full integration with Continuous Integration servers like Atlassian's Bamboo CI server, automated performance testing can ensure that no code push can cause a poor experience for your users.;Remediation- Making changes to a web page, application or API can have unintended consequences. Blitz can extract information from your monitoring solution like Google Analytics®, etc. and create a load test to verify the fix.;Monitoring, and Remediation also available | Share Graphs and Stats- anytime, anywhere;GUI or API- load test how you want | Define user behaviour in code;Distributed & scalable;Proven & battle tested |
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Followers 41 | Followers 173 | Followers 317 |
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What are some alternatives to Blitz, Loader.io, Locust?
k6
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Gatling
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BlazeMeter
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RedLine13
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Flood IO
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Artillery
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