Any suggestions about how jmeter can be used to do regression testing for page load times

Question

I am thinking to put automated regression tests in place for page load times. We have few deployment scenarios and I think we could use jmeter with Jenkins/hudson integration, but I am not sure how to go about it and what are the best practices to implement it.

Can you suggest what could be the approach to implement such regression test?

Are there any better alternative if not jmeter?

Answer 1

You can do that either with JMeter or with Grinder.

Performance Plugin will do the trick for you:

Please check this answer

You can also use Plot Plugin to visualize any data you want, for example you can define your own key performance metrics (KPIs).

You can find more details Plotting arbitrary data for repository.