A Statistically Customisable Web Benchmarking Tool

We describe a statistically customisable solution for Web benchmarking that includes three utilities: an Internet traffic generator for HTTP traffic, an static and dynamic Web pages generator in the Web server that is going to be tested and a performance monitor that reports some performance metrics during the test. The design of the tool is based on the implementation of the most important probability distributions that mainly characterise statistical properties of Internet traffic like the inter-arrival rate of the incoming Web traffic to the server, the number of objects contained in a Web page and the size of these Web objects. These properties can be customised for a specific capacity planning analysis. In this work, we describe the generation process of the Web pages and the customisable traffic characterization used by the benchmark. The monitoring process details and the validation of the probability distributions implemented are also included.