How can I test requests per second locally?

Question

I have a simple asp.net MVC application that I want to test how many requests per second the website can handle.

I'm on a windows computer, what tools can I use?

Answer 1

You can use the Web Capacity Analysis Tool from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/231282/en-us

So if you are using...

IIS 6: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?DisplayLang=en&id=17275

IIS 7: http://www.iis.net/community/default.aspx?tabid=34&i=1466&g=6

Answer 2

If you have an MSDN license and have Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate you can take advantage of the "web tests" and "load test" features.

You can create web tests to mimic the requests that you want to benchmark and then create a load test to tell VS how many users/network bandwidth/et cetera to emulate. Pretty neat stuff built into VS.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/amit_chatterjee/archive/2009/01/29/web-and-load-testing-with-visual-studio-team-system.aspx