Industry: Local Government Client: City of Melville Project: Performance Tuning of Public Website Year: 2015 Website: www.melvillecity.com.au The situation The City of Melville is a local government organisation in the southern suburbs of the Western Australia's capital city of Perth. The city is one of the largest local government [...]
Permeance recently completed a multi-month Performance Testing project in Western Australia. Although CA BlazeMeter can run tests for millions of users, this was the largest load test conducted using CA BlazeMeter in Australia to-date and set new records for cloud Performance Testing. CA BlazeMeter published a short case study on the exercise. [...]
I am still amazed how so many high profile sites go down or experience performance degradation year on year due to inability to handle a sudden flood of traffic. What's even more disturbing is some sites may stay online while experiencing significant performance degradation, this issue often doesn't trigger any alarms and in some cases [...]