Web Perfermance Tester - Locust

Today, we use a web perfermance tool to test our web site.
We use locust.

Install locust

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pip install locustio

create a web perfermance program

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from locust import HttpLocust, TaskSet, task

class WebsiteTasks(TaskSet):
    def on_start(self):
        self.client.post("/login", {
            "username": "admin",
            "password": "admin"
        })
    
    @task
    def index(self):
        self.client.get("/")
        
    @task
    def tags(self):
        self.client.get("/tags")

class WebsiteUser(HttpLocust):
    task_set = WebsiteTasks
    host = "http://localhost:3000/artc"
    min_wait = 10
    max_wait = 150

start web test server

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locust -f locustfile.py

open http://localhost:8089/ for web perfermance tester web-portal

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http://localhost:8089/

Set Number of users to simulate, Hatch rate (users spawned/second) and start test.

Instructions

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host: the website host that you want to test for;
min_wait, max_wait: set up the test wait time. min_wait will affect the response/sec rate