As of today, BrowserMob now supports both concurrent browsers and simulated virtual users. The term virtual user was adopted by early load test providers as a way to describe the technique of simulating the HTTP traffic that a real user would cause when visiting a website. While BrowserMob’s core technology sidesteps the concept of virtual users and actually drives real browsers, we felt it was important to also provide a second option for our customers.
For any moderate-to-large size website, a load balancer is almost always used to spread web traffic across multiple web servers. When it comes to load testing an environment with load balancers, it’s important to understand how your network infrastructure and software behavior is configured to handle the incoming load. It’s also equally important to understand how your load testing tool generates it’s load. Only by knowing both of these things is it possible to run an accurate load test that yields useful results.
Types of Load Balancers
Load balancers often have three types of logic for distributing incoming HTTP requests. They are:
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