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In "Performance Management Tools For Good Measures", an article from the July 1, 2000 issue of Internet World, James Karney writes:
"Do you really know how well your web site is performing? The Internet is a harsh environment. From moment to moment, a variety of factors can slow load times to a crawl. Serious sites often have to handle traffic surges four to ten times their normal load flawlessly, or risk losing customers. Managing those kinds of load shifts demands a detailed knowledge of content, users, their interaction and everything in between."
It's no secret that sites and applications should be extensively tested before they go live and continually monitored after launch. There are several commercial products available that offer this service. However, these solutions are generic, bloated, and expensive. It doesn't make sense to pay someone a lot of money for a service that isn't specialized for your unique site/application, and therefore will fall short of expectations. This is the reason many web developers tend to favor in-house solutions.
There are several problems with developing in-house solutions. Companies have limited resources (time, programmers, etc.) to create an extensive load-testing program. In-house solutions have a tendency to re-invent the wheel (I can guarantee you're not the first person with the need to test a registration application). Web technologies are constantly changing and evolving, therefore a performance analysis tools must be capable of changing and evolving at the same speed, and in-house solutions generally solve the problem at hand with little or no regard to future use.
WebPAJ aims to offer the benefits and solve the current problems inherent with in-house solutions.
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