Load Impact 2.3 released!

We’re happy to introduce Load Impact 2.3!

Load Impact 2.3 contains a new and improved proxy recorder that automatically detects pages and creates page load time result metrics for each of your web pages. The recorder also allows you to insert code comments in the generated user scenario, which can be useful in order to find where in your user scenario code a certain page is being loaded.

Behind the scenes, Load Impact 2.3 also includes a lot of optimizations that result in a much faster reporting interface, especially for large tests that generate a lot of results data these optimizations will make a huge difference to how snappy the “view test” page feels. And for live tests, the reporting page will also be a lot smoother. In fact, Load Impact 2.3 is a major rewrite of the underlying storage subsystem and how data is being accessed by the user interface code. More things are loaded on-demand now (i.e. as/when needed) and this results in a page that is much lighter on the client computer. You should now be able to view even the largest tests on the flimsiest of laptops.

Other improvements you will find in 2.3 include:

 

• Graphical editor support for data stores, custom metrics and other new API functionality
• Several API updates – http.page API functions, named parameters, etc.
• You can now plot graphs of load generator CPU and memory usage during the test!
• The URL list on the report page now displays bytes received and compression ratio
• Content type classification now uses the Content-Type header
• Click the pie charts to highlight different objects in the URL list on the test report page
• Many bug fixes…