in the past? 2. Identify how customers navigate the website Make a list of all the page types that customers navigate to when on your site. You will want to pull together the following data: In order to plan an appropriate script flow, you'll want to incorporate all the most used pages and conversion paths above in a way that mimics the average website visitor during the peak timeframe. To get your peak traffic levels: Examine your past 12 months of data and find the busiest day of the year: This will help you determine the number of scripts you'll want running at any given time 4. Create load test scripts Now is the time to create your load test scripts that that simulate customer "personalities" and exercise the most trafficked pages and landing pages. When you create your load test scripts, there will be 2 main types of personalities: those that just navigate through the site, and those that go through conversion paths. You'll want to create an appropriate number of scripts to cover the main, page types and conversion paths from step 2 and distribute them appropriately using the metrics gathered from step 3. Here is the methodology of how to create the scripts: For navigation only scripts -- Your navigation scripts should include roughly the same number of pages as your Pages / Visit metric from above indicates. If you can't cover all your page types in a single script, consider using multiple navigation only personalities to