How Internet performance testing is significant over traditional performance testing

Firstly, we should understand the difference between those two. In general , we simulate virtual users from LGs either from single place or multiple places based on their location. It does not give us practical results. The reason is , Users access the application hosted in internet from various geographic locations of the world.

So, We need to simulate the same to get exact experience. In order to acheive this, Internet performance testing is much helpful by simulating users from various geographic locations. Also, simualting with various bandwidth,browsers also important.

Here are the factors we should take into account as per my understanding and knowledge.

Geographic locations
Different Mix of Browsers
Different Network bandwidth

This can be acheived in Loadrunner through Shunra integration and in Neoload Cloud load generators.

Hope this article is useful.