Akamai Web Run Tests
Shared 8GB - May 13 2020

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Web Run tests are made of a load test tool and a database intensive Rails web application.

The load test tool sends HTTP requests to the web application at a controlled rate and records HTTP response codes, response latencies and timeouts. The load test tool is multithreaded and runs on the same VPS where the web application runs.

The intent is to measure:

  • the response times (latency) of the web server
  • the amount of CPU used to serve those requests under various load levels
  • what's the maximum load at which 100% requests are served without timing out.

Provider: Akamai
Plan: Shared 8GB
Datacenter: New Jersey, USA
Number of CPU cores: 4
CPU type: AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core Processor

Web Runs by request rate


Note: the P99 is the 99th percentile. The P99 latency is the latency of the 1% slowest HTTP requests in the web run.


Rate (reqs/s) Average Latency P99 Latency CPU idle CPU steal Successful requests Timed out requests Duration (minutes)
1 96ms 600ms 97% 0.01% 304 0 5
5 87ms 180ms 87% 0.03% 3004 0 5
10 87ms 180ms 76% 0.03% 6004 0 10
15 84ms 175ms 65% 0.03% 4504 0 5
30 90ms 195ms 27% 0.04% 9014 0 5
35 104ms 225ms 4% 0.02% 10514 0 5
40 99ms 220ms 0% 0.05% 11530 470 5

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