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Open Benchmark Overview
Whitepaper on comparing performance of Windows NT Server 4.0 and Linux.

 
JAWS Adaptive Web Server
An Application Framework for High Performance Web Systems; ongoing research funded in part by Object Technologies International and by Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N.Y.

 
Keynote
Provider of Internet performance measurement, diagnostic and consulting services. Benchmarking and performance measurement services are designed to enable customers to measure and improve their e-business quality services worldwide.

 
Performance of Several HTTP Demons on an HP 735 Workstation
This document describes a limited series of performance experiments comparing the response time and throughput of HTTP servers on an HP 735 workstation.

 
Keynote Consumer 40
Regularly updated internet consumer performance index.

 
WebStone Benchmark
Benchmark testing software for web servers.

 
C10K problem
Discussion and references on web servers being able to handle ten thousand clients simultaneously.

 
Improving HTTP Latency
An analysis of the costs of the currently used HTTP protocol, using a separate TCP connection for each file requested, and proposed modifications to HTTP that, while interoperating with unmodified implementations, avoid the unnecessary network c.

 
Keynote Business 40
Regularly updated internet business performance index.

 
Internet Performance and IP Provider Metrics
Site has Papers about Internet performance and its measurement and the IPPM Official Working Group.

 
SPECweb96
SPECweb96 is a standardized benchmark for measuring basic Web Server performance and features; Standardized workload agreed to by major players in WWW market, Full disclosures available available on this web site, and Stable implementation with .

 
etest Associates
Web testing consultancy delivering a evaluations of performance, load, usability, security and functionality.

 
Frontline Test Equipment: Internet Protocol Analyzers
Portable, affordable, PC-based data communication protocol analyzers. Makers of Serialtest and the FTS family of protocol analyzers and testers.

 
Web Performance Testing
Resource guide on servers, including search tools, web stores and reference links.

 
An Analysis of HTTP Performance
August 1996 report from USC/Information Sciences Institute on the performance effects of using per-transaction TCP connections for HTTP access, and the proposed optimizations of avoiding per-transaction re-connection and TCP slow-start restart o.

 
The Case for Persistent-Connection HTTP
This paper reports the results of log-driven simulations of several variants of the proposed HTTP modifications that would transport multiple requests over each TCP connection, which demonstrate the value of persistent connections.

 
SpiderCache
Developer of Internet performance software that increases site responsiveness.

 
WebCompare - Web Server Benchmarks
Links to vendor-sponsored and web server software tests found throughout the internet.

 
SPECweb99
SPECweb99 is the next-generation SPEC benchmark for evaluating the performance of World Wide Web Servers, and provides an objective and representative benchmark for measuring a system's ability to act as a web server.

 
Web66 GStone Testing Laboratory
The GStone is a measure of web server performance for a 'typical' user connecting to a 'typical' server which is under a 'typical' load. It is a measure of performance from the user's point of view. The GStone measures the time it takes to start.

 
WWW-SPEED
This list is dedicated to the proposition that the web is just too darned slow, and that some of its key components have inherent performance problems that cannot be dealt with without changes to protocols.

 
Keynote Web Broker Trading Index
Regularly updated index based on measurements of multi-page stock transactions, which shows the average response time in seconds and the success rate for creating a standard stock-order transaction on selected brokerage web sites.

 
WebSitePulse.com: Website Performance Monitoring
Offers a remote Web site, Web server, and transaction monitoring service for TCP- or UDP-enabled systems, including real-time alerts and reporting.

 
TelSoft Inc.
Web site testing provider ensuring sites function and perform correctly, are compatible across different browser and operating system configurations, and can handle a large volume of users.

 
Volano Benchmarks
For running benchmark tests on java systems.

 
CaffeineMark 3.0
The CaffeineMark is a series of tests that measure the speed of Java programs running in various hardware and software configurations.

 
High Performance Web Servers on Windows NT
1997 presentation which describes research done on optimizations necessary to build efficient and scalable Web servers, and describes how the researchers have created and customized JAWS to leverage advanced features of Windows NT, such as async.

 
Tippecanoe Systems, Inc.
Developer of search engine software for the World Wide Web and bar coding software. Software runs on multiple platforms. Products are sold to Fortune 1000 companies. This company was capitalized by private investment.

 
WebSideStory: Site Performance Analysis
Web site performance analysis solution. Web-based application tracks and analyzes visitor browser data, traffic, system, page, navigation statistics.

 
USC Information Sciences Institute
This document describes several performance problems resulting from interactions between implementations of persistent-HTTP (P-HTTP) and TCP.

 
HTTP Performance Overview
This page is devoted to information about how to improve HTTP/1.1 performance. Most of the results are derived from experiences with Jigsaw, Apache and the libwww implementations of HTTP/1.1.

 
netVmg
Traffic management services provider that optimizes Internet protocol (IP) traffic across multiple networks, ensuring predictable performance for mission-critical applications.

 
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