Simon Willison’s Weblog

18th May 2011 - Link Blog

On HTTP Load Testing. Mark Nottingham explains that running good HTTP benchmarks means understanding available network bandwidth, using dedicated physical hardware, testing at progressively higher loads and a whole lot more.

Posted 18th May 2011 at 10:17 am

Recent articles

DeepSeek V4 - almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price - 24th April 2026
Extract PDF text in your browser with LiteParse for the web - 23rd April 2026
A pelican for GPT-5.5 via the semi-official Codex backdoor API - 23rd April 2026

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 18th May 2011.

http 101 mark-nottingham 14 recovered 213 load-testing 3

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe