Do you need to know how many simultaneous visitors your customer-facing websites and website applications can support? Do you want to accurately model the customer experience from anywhere in the world over any type of Internet connection? Do you want to replace “outside-the-firewall” testing with an approach that’s less expensive, more flexible and easier to manage?
As the content and services you provide to customers via your website become increasingly important to your company’s bottom line, it is critical to ensure the performance and scalability of customer-facing sites. That’s why Internet infrastructure management teams engage in “outside of the firewall” stress testing services as well as rigorously monitor server loads, back-end database connections, and transaction logs.
But, ultimately, the true test of any website’s performance is the end-user’s experience at the desktop. And to get insight into this experience, you have to take into account factors such as the various types of Internet connections your customers use, and their physical distance from your hosting center.
A Complete Virtual Internet Environment Right in Your Test Lab
Shunra VE offers a practical and cost-effective approach to website testing. With
Shunra VE, you can simulate the network connections to hundreds or thousands of website users accessing your website from different parts of the world over any combination of dial-up, cable modem, and/or xDSL. And by integrating with a
load tool you can recreate the consumer internet world without physically leaving the lab.
An easy-to-use, cost-effective, controllable, and repeatable alternative to costly and complex outside-the-firewall testing, Shunra VE delivers powerful insight which is invaluable for discovering performance bottlene
cks and ac
hieving service level objectives all the way to the customer’s desktop. With Shunra VE you can fine-tune your Internet environment and validate the impact of any proposed changes to see if they really deliver expected improvements – or determine whether or not your infrastructure is ready to handle seasonal utilization peaks. You can also use Shunra VE to re-create and troubleshoot issues that emerge in your production environment.
Shunra VE simplifies critical testing tasks and provides many advantages over “outside of the firewall” testing services, such as the ability to:
- Discover network related performance bottlenecks before you launch your website
- Achieve service level objectives all the way to the customer’s desktop
- Repeat and modify test scenarios over and over, and recreate problems again and again to validate fixes and changes
- Accurately compare the performance of different versions of your website
- Eliminate security and regulatory risks associated with exposing online systems currently in development to the outside world
- Simulate projected peak seasonal traffic loads
- Test and validate website infrastructure and software “fixes” under production conditions - before going live
An inadequate online experience poses a serious threat to customer satisfaction and retention. With Shunra VE, you can protect your company against this threat – while cost-effectively optimizing the quality of your customers’ online experience and ensuring that your investments in hosting architecture are well-aligned with your real performance needs.
To learn more about how Shunra VE can help you ensure the quality of your customers’ online experience, please complete the QuickContact form below.