Including Static Content

It's quite common with LoadForge tests to ignore static content (images, stylesheets, javascript, etc) as the main source of load will be your dynamic pages. However, it can be good to test the capacity of your webserver as well.

The below example requests an index page, and then a CSS, JS, and image file as well. You'll see the image request has a custom weight @task(4) to make it request 4x more images than the other task.

Code

from locust import HttpUser, task, between


class QuickstartUser(HttpUser):
    wait_time = between(5, 9)


    # this will run once per wait_time
    @task(1)
    def index_page(self):
        self.client.get("/")
        self.client.get("/app.js")
        self.client.get("/app.css")


    # this will run 4x as much as the above
    # it helps us fake 4x as many images on a page as content
    @task(4)
    def image_selection(self):
        self.client.get("/images/logo.jpg")