Know how your website behaves under real traffic

Website Load Testing

As traffic increases, small inefficiencies compound. Website load testing shows whether your site remains responsive, predictable, and stable when real users arrive at scale.

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What Happens When
Websites Aren’t Tested Under Load

  • [ 01/06 ]

    Performance Degrades
    Before Your Team Notices

  • [ 02/06 ]

    Failures Are Intermittent
    and Hard to Reproduce

  • [ 03/06 ]

    Capacity Limits Are
    Discovered in Production

  • [ 04/06 ]

    One Bottleneck Slows the
    Entire Site

  • [ 05/06 ]

    Third-Party Dependencies
    Fail Under Pressure

  • [ 06/06 ]

    Performance Problems
    Surface Too Late

How We Test Website Performance

  1. We simulate
    real traffic

  2. Traffic is distributed

  3. Tests Tailored
    to Your Goal

  4. We observe the entire system

  5. You get a clear performance report

  6. We explain what to
    fix and why

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load testing before running it?

Download our ultimate load testing guide for free.

Why Website Load
Testing
Is Worth It

  • Lower Bounce Rates under
    Real Traffic

    Users leave when pages hesitate. Testing under load reduces slow responses that quietly push visitors away before they interact with the site.

  • Consistent Experience during Traffic Surges

    PR hits, campaigns, launches, or sudden organic growth no longer become risk events. The site behaves predictably when attention peaks.

  • Fewer Costly Incidents and Outages

    Traffic spikes stop turning into emergency fixes. Capacity limits are addressed before they cause downtime, lost revenue, or public failures.

  • Confidence to Grow without Hesitation

    Teams ship updates, launch campaigns, and scale traffic knowing the website has already been tested beyond expected demand.

How to Get Started

  1. Discover Your Testing
    Needs

    Schedule a Call
  2. Create a Strategy and Build the Team

  3. Get Started

Discover Our Cases

Preparing EdTech Software for Mass Student Registration

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Load testing helped an EdTech platform handle 1,000+ simultaneous student registrations without failures during peak enrollment events.

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Tynor Prepared the New Website for High Sales in Four Days

With PFLB’s help, Tynor engineers analyzed the behavior of the site under load and identified several bottlenecks at the database and network levels. Then, there were several more iterations of fixing issues and load testing. Finally, website performance was improved by more than a factor of 30.

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Why Choose PFLB

  • Decades of performance testing expertise

    PFLB has been focused on performance testing since 2008 and has grown to more than 500 performance engineers across 25+ countries.

  • Clear explanation of performance
    issues Clear explanation of performance issues

    Test results are explained in plain terms: where the system slows down, what causes it, and what needs attention to improve performance.

  • Direct involvement from
    engineers

    PFLB engineers stay involved throughout the work, from test setup to analysis and follow-up, instead of just handing off results.

  • Testing aligned with your
    system

    Load tests are designed around your actual architecture, traffic patterns, and constraints, rather than a predefined testing template.

PFLB Client’s Review

Testimonials from satisfied clients across various industries.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

    I was highly satisfied working with PFLB. They're a fantastic one-stop shop for software performance, with everything you need—their platform and skilled engineers. I've used them three times to load test the College Board software before big updates, and it all went smoothly. Plus, I love that they store all the testing data, so we can track performance capacity over time.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

    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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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

    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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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

    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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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

    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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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

    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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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

    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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Ready to See How
Your Website Performs?

We’ll run a load test and explain where performance breaks down
and what to address next.