NeoLoad 3.2 has just been released offering better support for Web technologies and enabling cloud-based load generation.

NeoLoad V3.2 now supports:

• Silverlight
• Siebel
• VMware monitoring
• SOAP web services

NeoLoad continues to be one of the most productive and cost-effective load test tools on the market and is used where web performance is critical in areas such as retail, online gaming and independent software providers.

8th February 2011 - CIO magazine reports that Nationwide Building Society’s web homepage went offline this morning for 2 hours, apparently after its servers couldn't cope with the volume of data.

Customers attempting to access Nationwide.co.uk were greeted with the message “Server is too busy”.

Such problems can usually be overcome using Load Testing tools to identify performance bottlenecks in the system.

So, recent research from TNS/Zeus Technology shows that 82% of UK online shoppers said that if a website performed badly it would dissuade them from buying goods from that organisation on the web or in store.

The survey was based on a sample of over 2,000 shoppers and shows that each of them will abandon around 5.5 online purchases every year due to poor website response times.

Load testing an application ensures that it will function correctly once it's in production. Testing answers the following questions simply and conclusively:

• Will my application fall apart under load?
• Will my pre-defined performance targets be met?
• How many simultaneous users can my Web site handle

Performance problems are common and have a wide variety of causes:

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