The following section provides a detailed instructional overview of performance optimization features and components for implementing the Performance Lifecycle.
Site Analysis enables to obtain insight into the overall performance of Web applications. Benchmark information provides an initial indication of the Web application’s current performance. This information can be used as a starting point for observing the performance boost gained applying the performance tools. Benchmarking measures Web server performance and durability.
In Platform, Benchmarking is achieved through the Testing screen (Performance | Testing).
This screen includes three options.
Test URL - tests a single script, running Performance and Compression tests at the same time. The test results indicate the script improvements achieved by Code Acceleration, Dynamic Content Caching and File Compression.
Analyze Site - tests performance for the entire Web application, running the Performance test separate from the Compression test. The test results indicate the overall script improvements achieved by Code Acceleration, Dynamic Content Caching and File Compression and the popularity of each file.
Test Download - tests the efficiency of the Zend Download Server. This test is addressed in the Enterprise Server chapter titled "Zend Download Server".
The above-mentioned tests analyze an entire site’s performance or monitor a single script. The test results can be further used outside Zend Platform as they can be printed or sent by e-mail.
Notes:
Since testing may take a while to run, it is suggested that you choose only the most recently added files. You may select as many files as you wish; nonetheless this will increase the duration of the test.
Prior to running the Compression Test and in order to ensure accurate results, you may want to add query strings to the script path entries.
When running Performance Tests, query strings can only be added to cached scripts, to check for performance gain.
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