The short answer is maybe. There’s a big difference between a website speed test and load testing. Sometimes people confuse the two, so we’ll try to explain the differences here briefly.
Website Speed Test
A website speed test typically measures the total load time of a page, which includes MySQL + PHP response times. Tools like Pingdom or GTmetrix are commonly used for this type of test.
Load Testing
Load testing goes above and beyond speed tests and is typically used to simulate certain conditions, such as a high surge of traffic or targeted concurrent users. Load testing tools aren’t perfect, and setting up tests correctly can be complex.
Due to the potentially resource-intensive nature of load testing, if you need to run a load test on our platform, we ask that you first open a new chat with our Support team to let us know.