Kinds of Software Testing Projects ◾ 29
their sites free of cost to their users. ey get their revenue from advertising. An
increase in the number of users means an increase in advertising revenue. So,
from a business perspective, it is essential that the performance of their sites be
good even when the load on their servers is huge. Generally, if any page requires
more than 10 seconds to load, then the performance of the application is consid-
ered poor.
To make sure that their site performance is good, they need to test their site for
performance. Performance bottlenecks could be at user interface, database, server
memory, server processor speed, or any networking component at the Web server
farm consisting of server computers, applicat