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Black Friday

Black-Friday challenge

Black Friday offers a prime chance for online stores to earn substantial profits in a single day.
With a surge in user traffic and high expectations for lucrative offers, it’s crucial to provide a seamless experience to your customers.

To ensure your website can handle the increased load, we recommend simulating this scenario in advance through comprehensive performance testing on a dedicated test environment. By identifying and addressing potential bottlenecks beforehand, you can guarantee a smooth and successful Black Friday for your business.

The numbers tell a story of their own

$65.3 bln

According to Salesforce Inc., the global Black Friday online sales in 2022 reached $65.3 billion

$46.2 bln

According to Salesforce Inc., Cyber Monday sales reaching $46.2 billion

30%

Meeting load time expectations is crucial, as 30% expect under 1 second

50%

Akamai’s report reveals that 50% of users get disappointed and switch to another site if a page has performance issues.

22% may never return if disappointed.

To prevent user dissatisfaction and revenue loss, it is crucial to ensure seamless performance.

Don’t miss the unparalleled opportunity to maximize profits.

Safeguard your reputation and maintain customer trust.

Stand out from competitors by attracting their customers with optimized performance.

Learn what our strategy is all about

During standard performance tests, the system is typically put under pressure for about an hour or two. However, on Black Friday, the system can experience continuous high load throughout the entire day.

Ensure a smooth user experience by engaging PFLB for performance testing services in advance.

Shape performance expectations by leveraging our expertise.
Conduct tests on real-world hardware and software or create a dedicated test environment.
Explore the maximum performance capacity of your system to understand its capabilities and plan performance optimizations.
Let’s plan a strategy and a workflow for your business. Just tell us about your needs.
Get a quote You’ll hear back from our tech account manager in one day if not sooner.

Follow the workflow

Our carefully structured workflow

01
Preparation and planning
- Develop a load testing methodology, focusing on resource-intensive operations and SLA expectations.
02
Testing environment setup
- Prepare test data and configure the testing infrastructure.
- Create testing scripts and deploy emulators.
03
Performance testing and analysis
- Execute performance tests and monitor the results.
- Conduct correlation analysis, mapping resource usage and identifying problematic code fragments.
04
Optimization and reporting
- Provide optimization recommendations, including alternative architectural solutions.
- Generate a detailed report with optimization suggestions and perform follow-up testing after implementing changes.

Learn more about our work process

How we work

And hear how we could help you

Get a quote

Let us know about your needs

We can give you an access to the platform, we can provide multiple services, we can do all of it if the situation needs a far more complex approach.

Get a quote You’ll hear back from our tech account manager in one day if not sooner

Hire the best team possible

Meet our experts

Our dedicated team of specialists is committed to your project, offering comprehensive support at every stage. Each team member brings extensive experience and is carefully selected to meet the specific requirements of your request.

Yuri

CEO

Boris

Principal performance engineer

Vik

Product manager
Cloud

Specialists assigned to the project will include:

Senior performance testing engineer

Test designer

DevOps engineer (optional)

Project manager (optional)

Get a thorough report

Sample report

You will receive a comprehensive report summarizing all identified issues.
Each case of resource overconsumption will be detailed, including its business impact, the responsible component, and the specific code section involved. This allows you to pinpoint the operations consuming the most resources and identify the specific component and code section causing the issue.

Our work is considered complete when you receive information regarding the maximum number of users your store can handle and identify the bottleneck limiting its scalability.

Pay any way convenient

Pricing for performance testing before Black Friday is customized for each unique system and determined on a project-by-project basis.
It will be based on factors such as the scope of functionality to be tested and emulated.

We provide flexible billing options, including fixed-price and time-and-material models, to accommodate your specific requirements.

Billing options we have

Fixed price

Time-and-material

Let’s talk money. We’ll get you an offer after a 30-minutes consultation about your needs and expectations.

Get a quote Let’s talk money. We’ll get you an offer after a 30-minutes consultation about your needs and expectations.

See what we could achieve together

No more software limits to scaling your business

No hidden profit losses related to performance issues

No performance degradation with every new release

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PFLB has been Tinder’s load testing provider for over 5 years, and it is a true pleasure working with them. They managed the entire performance engineering process for our app releases, helping us fix tons of performance issues. I highly recommend PFLB as a reliable vendor.

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PFLB’s testing team helped us successfully complete the FDA regulations with a great test coverage for the computer system validation (CSV) process at Illumina. I highly recommend Yuri Kovalov and his team—they’re top-notch professionals in performance and load testing.

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We smoothly moved over 30 JMeter projects to PFLB, and it’s been a total game changer. It’s given our team of 50+ remote performance engineers the ability to handle large-scale load tests every day with real ease.

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PFLB did benchmarking tests on our database storage engine under standard and uncommon conditions, using specialized tools. Their analysis gave us valuable insights and recommendations to boost our product’s performance. I highly recommend PFLB to anyone looking for an expert performance testing company.

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PFLB was willing to work with a very small solopreneur without an enormous investment in capital. Their prices were reasonable and provided me with notable improvements to my php performance.

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It was a pleasure working with PFLB, and I’d recommend them for performance testing. They quickly got up to speed with our complex software architecture and were super productive in setting up our load test environment in the cloud. They were really dedicated to improving our product with their strong expertise in performance optimization.

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Get ready for the
Black Friday

Let it be black for the consumers but not for the business.

Get a quote You’ll hear back from our tech account manager in one day if not sooner.

What else we could be helpful with

Beyond just optimizing cloud spending, we offer our expertise to help you achieve success in various areas. Whether you’re launching a new app, gearing up for a major sale, or planning a system migration, we’ll support you every step of the way to ensure your goals are realized and your system performance remains at its peak.

Application Go-Live

Maximize your launch success. Pre-release performance testing ensures your app or product update handles surges seamlessly, safeguarding your reputation and business continuity.

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