What is SPECweb99 anyway?

SPECweb99 is a client-server measurement where the object is to test the web server/hardware performance. A set of client "drivers" simulates a mix of mostly static web requests to the system being measured. The "web request mix" being measured is probably more "static" than is typical of current web sites. Back to FAQ • What does SPECweb99 measure? The key metric for SPECweb99 is simultaneous connections (conns). That is, how many simultenous conforming web connections (of the specific SPECweb99 "mix") are sustained over the length of the benchmark. The "synthetic web request mix" is about 70% Static GET, 25% Dynamic GET and 5% Dynamic POST operations. File sizes retrieved from the web server also vary from a trivial 100 Bytes to 1 Million Bytes. File space used for the "served documents" also increases as the size of the benchmark grows. Efforts are even made through the use of special random number distributions to simulate the effect of a localization of accesses to a subset of ...  more