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Siege

Load test for websites

Source GPL-3.0-or-later

Tutorial/3)

Installation

apt install -y siege

Use

Make sure you have permission before load testing a website. By default, siege acts as 25 users. Replace https://www.fsf.org/ with the URL of your choice.

siege https://www.fsf.org/

Change the number of users with -c. Change 60 to the number of users you want to test with.

siege -c 60 https://www.fsf.org/

Test load on a number of URLs by placing them into a plaintext file and test all of them at once.

siege -f ~/sites.txt

Set the time to test with the -t switch.

siege -t 30s https://www.fsf.org/