Hello, ABH>Not really; you also have to emulate the connection speeds of the ABH>users. Or does the tools you mentioned do that?
Both of the commercially produced tools I mentioned (SilkPerformer and the free Microsoft Web Stress program) can throttle bandwidth. Rolling your own is a bunch harder. So you're correct. My point though is not so much that the load profile of what pages get loaded in what order, and what data calls and dynamic scripts are run in what order are genuine. If you simulate the timing between requests, you'll even get spikes that are similar to the real thing. It's definitely not reality! You also miss anomalies like users closing browsers and (unless you capture full headers) which clients support keep-alives for example. But, it's closer to reality than most scripts that are invented (especially be developers ;)). Humbly, Andrew ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Ho http://www.tellme.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice 650-930-9062 Tellme Networks, Inc. 1-800-555-TELL Fax 650-930-9101 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
