Abstract
Today, education has emerged as a major area of commercial activities. The access to various University websites through Internet has opened up new opportunities for the beneficiaries. The creation of these websites fully serves the purpose of educational institutions in advancing and achieving their goals. The varied information made available on these websites and the minimum transaction response time to address the queries of end-users can go a long way to influence their decision in selecting a particular course and an institution. The issue assumes greater significance especially in a developing country like India where a website development and deployment activity is primarily facing the shortage of formalized website design techniques and testing procedures. The performance of most of the University websites is reasonably well, but when accessed by only a few concurrent users. Thus, the aim of this study is to analyze and compare the scalability and performance of selected University websites of Punjab (India) by means of load testing. Simulation of realistic users’ behavior is achieved through LoadRunner, a software tool for performance testing. Of all the University websites under study, on the basis of their scalability and performance, it has been found that the websites of Deemed and Central universities are the most and least efficient respectively. The findings of this study can be of great significance for the higher educational institutions in improving the performance quality of their websites resulting into their better ranking and satisfaction of the stakeholders. The paper also outlines the scope for further research in the area under study.
Highlights
AND RELATED WORKThe advent of World Wide Web has greatly influenced every business in one way or the other
On the basis of these inputs, an attempt was made to find which pages/links of the University websites are suitable in the creation of script for performance testing
From the scalability point of view, the website of Deemed University under study has been found to be the best as an increase in user load has resulted into an increase in the throughput and hits per second both in tandem and proportionally
Summary
AND RELATED WORKThe advent of World Wide Web has greatly influenced every business in one way or the other. Web applications are an integral part of any website; and subsequently, existing websites have evolved from static information pages to dynamic and service-oriented applications These are highly used for a broad range of activities on a daily basis in the health care, education, consumer business, banking and manufacturing sectors [3]. Academic institutions make their websites for a wide range of purposes which mainly include distribution of information to the public, delivering online learning facilities to students, promotion of their educational and research programmes and the like. If it is assumed that universities are the brands for education marketing, websites emerge as a crucial part of this marketing process
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