Loadster

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Load testing for high-performance sites and web apps

About Loadster

Loadster is a load testing solution for websites, web applications, and APIs. You can use Loadster to simulate a large volume of users hitting your site, with realistic traffic patterns, in order to measure your site's scalability and prepare for an increase in traffic.

High traffic events represent a substantial risk to your business, as well as a great opportunity. By load testing your site, you can ensure your site's performance and scalability, thereby mitigating risk and maximizing the upside from your next high traffic event.

As a cloud-hybrid solution, Loadster supports on-demand cloud testing from 15+ global cloud regions, but you can also self-host your engines for testing on private networks.


Key benefits of Loadster

* Record, edit, and replay test scripts simulating realistic user behavior on your site.
* Run load tests with hundreds or thousands of virtual users.
* Monitor your site's performance in real time as the load test progresses.
* Analyze test results and generate reports to share with your team.
* Test from 24 global cloud regions, or your own self-hosted engines.


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Customer Support
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Pierre
Pierre
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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The perfect tool to load test your app.

Reviewed on 2020/05/19

Pros

While migrating ScrapingBee out of Heroku we wanted to know how the new infra would react to the load.

Simulating 400 users can be very resource-intensive and it would have been difficult to do it on our own machine.

In Loadster it took me literally less than a minute.

Using Loadster also allowed us to perfectly size our servers and we now know perfectly what are our bottlenecks what we will need to upgrade once we hit a certain usage threshold.

Cons

One killer feature would be to compare multiple testing runs.

Let's say I launch test A.

Then tweak my app and launch test B, I'd love to be able to easily compare A and B regarding what I changed in the app.

Steve
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  • Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

One of the few tools I thoroughly enjoy using

Reviewed on 2021/12/29

Pros

A bloody great tool - the scripts are easy to write, and the reporting / alerting are excellent.
Makes setting up load testing & monitoring straightforward and easily repeatable.

Cons

Overall uptime reporting (e.g. monthly) isnt currently available :(
However, the data is all available via API so you can roll your own.

Christina
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  • Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Invaluable tool for website load and performance testing!

Reviewed on 2022/01/04

We loved this application and what it provided for us. We will continue to use it for periodic...

We loved this application and what it provided for us. We will continue to use it for periodic testing of more specific updates and applications where performance and load testing are needed. I do expect we'll also continue to do benchmark testing several times a year to continue to monitor our production sites and how they perform.

Pros

This tool was super easy for us to get started with and use for a few items. Originally we used it to test out a emergency issue with our website and then we continued to use it to help us build new environments and when upgrading our website software. It gave us benchmarks to see that we were improving where we needed and helped us find areas that had issues. It also allowed us to feel confident that our site would handle the load of users it gets and more.

Cons

I believe that we struggled only with getting to know more about how to use it and needing to do so very quickly. The learning curve to get going took a bit but given the ability the software has that was to be expected. I think we would have looked for some training tutorials if we had time. Also I think we struggled with how to test a development environment that isn't open to the public and not sure we solved being able to do that without opening somehow to the 'outside' web.

Alexandru
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  • Industry: Security & Investigations
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Loadster is Awesome !

Reviewed on 2023/01/23

Pros

- Clear and intuitive UI - I did not have to reach out for help or even trawl through docs, everything was self-explanatory- Good level of detail in the report - much needed to make sure the results are properly understood- Option to import from Postman (which is a good but relatively slow tool) - I literally let out a small moan of satisfaction when I saw this was an option- Good trial offering

Cons

What's there to dislike ? Nothing !There is no such thing as perfect, but this hits the spot so well you might as well call it that !

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  • Industry: Design
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Simple to use, powerful performance testing

Reviewed on 2020/11/12

Highly recommended, will be using again regularly in the future and it's added another tool to our...

Highly recommended, will be using again regularly in the future and it's added another tool to our belt!

Pros

The user experience is awesome. The billing is simple and straightforward - the Fuel Calculator made it easy to work out the required usage. The actual script setup is easy as pie and so intuitive. You download the chrome extension and it records the script instantly. The screenshots auto generate so you can check it's run properly and it can easily handle entering values into fields, clicking on buttons and navigating around the site. If you've never used a performance testing tool for traffic, this is the one to go for - it didn't take much clicking around to feel familiar with the Dashboard and it's capabilities.

Cons

It's more suited to enterprise in terms of pricing as the minimum top up amount is $119 which is quite high, it would be great if there was a smaller package.

Alternatives Considered

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Reasons for Switching to Loadster

Easier to setup and more user friendly.

Loadster FAQs

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Loadster offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$97.00/month
  • Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
  • Free Trial: Available

Get started for free with 50 units of Loadster Fuel. Add more fuel when you need it (starting at USD $119) or subscribe to a monthly plan for the most cost-effective testing.

Loadster has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Loadster supports the following languages:

English

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Loadster integrates with the following applications:

Slack

Loadster offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat

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