Performance Testing for Classic ASP pages?

Question

I would like to know how to do performance testing for the old asp pages. Any tools out there that you've used?

Answer 1

There's nothing special as to how stress test an ASP web application. Profiling is a different matter.

For stress testing I recommend The Grinder (once and again and again :-) )

I haven't profiled ASP applications so I cannot help you there.

Answer 2

PS: I'm assuming by old ASP you are referring to "Classic ASP" not ASP.NET.

Here's a little piece of VBScript code I would put on pages to figure out how long they took to execute, you might find it useful.

<%
' Start the timer
starttime = timer()
%>

<!-- HTML and Code Here -->

<%
' End the timer
endtime = timer()
' Get the difference
benchmark = endtime - starttime
' Output the timing result
%>
<div class="noprint"><div class="debug">
<span class="text">Execute: <%= benchmark %> secs</span>
</div></div>

Answer 3

Apache Benchmark, there is even Windows version. It tests number of request per second and average time

Answer 4

These threads may be useful:

• Finding performance bottlenecks in a classic asp/sql server website
• ASP.NET Stress Testing
• Profiling ASP.NET websites with EQATEC Profiler

Like Vinko says, there's nothing "special" about testing ASP vs ASP.NET; any tool that can test one can (usually) test the other.

Personally, I like using LoadRunner for testing and the MS Visual Studio Analyzer for profiling.