Patent ID: 7921205

Claim:
A method of user-directed load testing of a website using a plurality of agents, the method comprising: receiving, by a hardware processor and from a user, an address of a website and a window of time during which a load test is to be executed; distributing the address and the window of time received from the user to a plurality of agents operating remotely from the user and distributed over a wide area, with instructions for each of the plurality of agents to access the website at the address during the window of time to execute the load test of the website; receiving data from the plurality of agents upon passage of the window of time, the data collectively describing a load placed upon the website by the plurality of agents executing the load test; presenting to the user the data describing the load placed upon the website; wherein the window of time received from the user comprises a plurality of successive durations of time; and prior to the distributing, receiving from the user a number of concurrent agents and a test mode for each of the plurality of successive durations of time.