Testing webserver vs web app

Overview

Sometimes you want to test the maximum requests per second your webservers can deliver, as opposed to the dynamic content your application can - e.g. php, Laravel, etc.

To do that you can request only static content from the webserver, or even a very small static text file.

Here is an example with an image and robots.txt:

Code

from locust import HttpUser, task, between

class QuickstartUser(HttpUser):
    wait_time = between(4, 7)

    @task(1)
    def robots_fetch(self):
        self.client.get("/robots.txt")

    @task(1)
    def image_selection(self):
        self.client.get("/images/logo.jpg")