http-bench

A simplistic http benchmarking client built on node.js

Installation

$ npm install http-bench

Usage

hb [options] <url e.g "http://www.google.com/index.html">

  Options:

    -h, --help             output usage information
    -V, --version          output the version number
    -c, --concurrency <n>  Number of concurrent clients (default: 1)
    -r, --ramp <n>         Time to ramp up clients (default: 1s)
    -t, --think <n>        Think time (default: 1s)
    -T, --timeout <n>      Request timeout (default: 60s)
    -d, --duration <n>     Test duration excluding ramp-up time and ramp-down times (default: 60s)
    -p, --partials <n>     Print partial results every n seconds (0 to disable  - this is the default)
    -v, --verbose          Verbose logs (for debugging)

Output Example

Requests: 3009
Errors: 0
Average Time: 110ms
95 percentile: 118ms
90 percentile: 110ms
80 percentile: 107ms
70 percentile: 106ms
60 percentile: 105ms

Average response time in ms, includes time to connect, and time to receive the response in its entirety.

Limitations

Supports http and https GET requests, that's about it for now.