Report Contents

A report file contains the following sections:

  • General Information
  • Virtual User

  • Summary Tables

  • Transaction Response Times

  • HTML Page and Action Timers

  • Web Form Measurements

General information

The general information section includes administrative information in a tabular form.

Administrative information includes the Silk Performer version info, the project name, a description of the project, the date and time of the test run, the workload definition, the workload model and the number of errors that occurred.

User types

For the virtual user, a section is available with details of the measured response times. The summary line shows the duration of the test, the session time, the session busy time, the average page time, the average action time, the number of transactions executed successfully, canceled, failed and the number of errors, if any, that occurred.

Summary tables

This section contains summary measurements in a tabular form, that is, aggregate measurements. The first table provides general information, such as the number of transactions that were executed and the number of errors, if any, that occurred. All the following tables provide summary information relevant to the type of application that was tested.

Transactions

This section contains summary measurements in a tabular form, that is, aggregate measurements for all transactions of the specific user. For every transaction, the transaction response time and the transaction busy time are displayed.

The transaction response time is measured from the beginning to the end of the transaction, including all think times.

The transaction busy time is the transaction response time without any think time included.

Page and action timers

This section contains summary measurements in a tabular form for every accessed Web page. For every page, the download time of the whole page, the HTML-document download time, the server busy time, the amount of data downloaded with this page, and the amount of data downloaded for embedded objects are displayed.

Web forms

This section contains summary measurements in tabular form for every used Web form. For every form, the round trip time, the server busy time, the number of HTTP hits, the amount of request data sent and the response data received are displayed.