Software and services for benchmarking and load testing of web sites, especially eCommerce. Site includes white papers and links.

Providing users with information and white-papers about benchmarking as well as providing links to related sites.

Pre-compiled benchmarks for PCs, covering CPU, RAM, HDD & graphics.

A starting point for finding information about computer system performance, benchmark test results and benchmark source code.

Benchmarks that measure the performance of Unix file system operations, concerned mainly with identifying bottlenecks.

A constantly growing database of computer systems benchmarked using NewTek's LightWave 3D.

Multi and single CPU system benchmark tests. Containing a gallery of generated images.

Developer of Benchmarking/Optimization tools for Windows PC's.

Performance tools for computer professionals.

Offering testing and health check services for multi-user applications, a risk management seminar, and general information about challenges faced by service providers introducing multi-user IT solutions.

EDN Embedded Microprocessor Benchmarking Consortium is a non-profit consortium that develops benchmark suites that target key embedded system applications.

Free software to analyze and benchmark your computer system.

Benchmark database, serving as a guide to the relative maths performance of various computers, processors and compilers.

Offering benchmark services in the UK.

Tools for performance analysis, latency & bandwidth measurement of hardware and the operating system. [for Unix]

Consulting practice focused on load testing with the Mercury Interactive tool.

Links and summaries of results of benchmarks comparing Windows NT and Linux network performance.

Home page for the dkftpbench FTP benchmark. Measuring how many simultaneous dialup users can be down loading from an FTP site at the same time.

Uses packet sniffer technology to monitor IP applications, such as HTTP, SMTP and POP3. It measures response times, through put and congestion. In beta release as of 7 May 2002.

A collection of tools to help analyze and improve software performance on Intel (x86 and ia64) and AMD (x86 and x86-64) systems running Linux, including tools for measuring hardware performance (CPU/cache/memory), message passing, compiler optimization, and I/O activity.

Sample benchmarks and links to benchmarking programs

Benchmark testing operating systems with Microsoft funded Windows NT verses Linux tests.

News and performance numbers from the Graphics Performance Characterization (GPC) Group

This is the HTML FORM's interface to more than one thousand benchmark results published by SPEC.

A standards body for performance benchmarks. SPEC is an umbrella organization encompassing the efforts of the Open Systems Group.

Database of business diagnostics and benchmarking tools and training. As well as a resource centre of reports, studies, abstracts and articles related to total quality management, benchmarking, business improvement and management.

Sustainable memory bandwidth discussion, with results on a wide variety of computer systems. From Macs and PCs to the most current and recent workstations, right up to Cray supercomputers. From the Department of Computer Science at Virginia.

System optimization site provides PC users with information to get the most out of their systems. Includes over-clocking guides, benchmark score surveys, evaluations of over 360 Internet PC hardware mail order retailers and performance tweaking advice.

TOP performers in all of the major public benchmarks, TPC, SPEC, Oracle, SAP, and Intel.

Bob's Semi-Objective Benchmark is a benchmarking tool for measuring the performance of x86 processors, particularly when overclocked.

SPEC information provided courtesy of SPEC and the University of Tennessee.

Transaction Processing Performance Council, a non-profit corporation founded to define transaction processing and database benchmarks and to disseminate objective, verifiable TPC performance data to the industry.

Test application for webservers, which simulates the traffic and usage generated by a large number of simultaneous web users.