Why Load Test your website.. ?

It’s an era of web 2.0, information on internet is shared to a large group of people world wide. Researchers have found that most of the web user never comes back to a website which takes more than 4 seconds to load. But to do business we need ads and other mechanisms to flow in our websites to stand up in the market. These ads increases the load time and other parameters affecting the overall performance of the applications. We need to find a balance between the intended contents and business content of our website so that we don’t lose a user group.The primary goal of load testing is to define the maximum amount of work a system can handle without significant performance degradation.
Let me share with you some statistics that is self explanatory for why someone would go for load testing