I just started my own entertainment site and I want to make sure it can recieve the proper web hits. i downloaded this program called microsoft web application testing tool. My question to you guys is when I run a test for 20 minutes and it say i recieved 4938 hits does that mean that those hits showed up on my website? I would think it would show up somewhere right? email me if you are familar with this please drew@drewreports.com
Another Programmer Told Me To Run A Web Stress Test Or Cron Job And It Will Get The Web Hits I Need For My Site Is That True? I Just Want To Make Sure They Actually Work ?
Running a properly configured stress test does indeed mean your site is getting all those hits. However, based on what you report, you're only handling about 4 requests per second on whatever page(s) you were hitting. Which is pretty low if you plan to be a high-performance site. Was it the stress tool unable to get the bandwidth to send out more requests or was your site unable to respond to more requests? That's something you need to research and figure out. A better test might be to try it from TWO computers and see if the total hits over the same period is higher than what you reported.
yes, it will show up in your server logs, but that is about it. These tools dont typically support the javascript needed for things like analytics If you are asking if it will help your google rankings, then of cause not.