# EZLippi/WebBench

Webbench是Radim Kolar在1997年写的一个在linux下使用的非常简单的网站压测工具。它使用fork()模拟多个客户端同时访问我们设定的URL，测试网站在压力下工作的性能，最多可以模拟3万个并发连接去测试网站的负载能力。官网地址:http://home.tiscali.cz/~cz210552/webbench.html

Repository: https://github.com/EZLippi/WebBench
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/webbench
Language: C
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2021-06-19T07:25:49+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4160, "days_push": 1901, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2794, forks 1134 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:22.282584+00:00)

## What it is
WebBench is a very simple website stress-testing tool for Linux, originally written by Radim Kolar in 1997. It uses fork() to simulate multiple concurrent clients hitting a specified URL, supporting up to 30,000 concurrent connections to measure a site's load capacity.

## Use cases
- load test a website with thousands of concurrent connections
- benchmark how a web server performs under stress
- measure response throughput of a URL before production launch
- stress test an HTTP endpoint with configurable client count and duration
- test website load capacity through a proxy server
- compare performance across HTTP/0.9, 1.0, and 1.1 protocols

## When to avoid
- you need detailed per-request metrics, latency percentiles, or rich reporting
- you require HTTPS/TLS support or modern HTTP/2+ testing
- you need distributed load generation across multiple machines
- you want scenario-based testing with authentication, cookies, or request bodies
- you are on Windows or macOS without a Linux environment

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: load-testing, http-client, benchmarking
- domain: web-development, performance, developer-tools
- platform: cli
- tags: stress-testing, http-benchmark, concurrent-clients, fork-based-load-generator, website-performance, command-line, linux

## Member repositories
- EZLippi/WebBench (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:22.282584+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:14:48.948704+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/EZLippi/WebBench (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:22.282584+00:00, sha 0856308f8f69)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.