ApacheBench is a command line computer program for measuring the performance of HTTP web servers, in particular the Apache HTTP Server. It was designed to give an idea of the performance that a given Apache installation can provide. In particular, it shows how many requests per second the server is capable of serving. Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a method used to transfer or convey information on the World Wide Web. ... The inside/front of a Dell PowerEdge web server The term Web server can mean one of two things: A computer that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from clients, which are known as Web browsers, and serving them HTTP responses along with optional data contents, which usually are Web... The Apache HTTP Server is a web server for Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows, Novell NetWare, Mac OS X and other operating systems. ...

The ab tool comes bundled with the standard Apache source distribution, and like the Apache web server itself, is free, open source software and distributed under the terms of the Apache License. Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... The Apache License (Apache Software License previous to version 2. ...

Detecting ApacheBench

The ApacheBench User Agent string is the following: A user agent is the client application used with a particular network protocol; the phrase is most commonly used in reference to those which access the World Wide Web. ...

ApacheBench/MAJV.MINV

where MAJV and MINV represent the major and minor version numbers of the program. It is usually not correctly categorised by web server log analysers such as Webalizer or AWStats, so running ApacheBench with a great number of requests may skew the results of the reports generated by these programs. Example Webalizer chart The Webalizer is a GPL application that generates web pages of analysis, from access and usage logs, i. ... AWStats is an open source, log file parser and analyzer, suitable for analyzing web server, streaming server, mail server and ftp server log files, and displaying the analysis results in a graphical manner. ...

External links

• Apache HTTPD official website
• Manual page for the 'ab' tool