Performance Optimization for Enterprise Web Applications through Remote Client Simulation

Contemporary enterprise web applications provide complex user interface functionality to attract users with desktop-like features. Naturally, such increasing UI complexity and user expectation results in greater application resource demands, which may degrade performance. System performance is measured by application responsiveness for end users in service delivery. Web application performance optimization occurs at all levels of the application, from server hardware, to database, etc. In this paper, we focus on the network delivery of application assets, identify bottlenecks in the service delivery, and provide suggestions for optimization. To accomplish this, we provide tools to simulate a variety of remote user communication scenarios and identify the application assets with the greatest impact on application performance. Based on the simulation results for the production application, we provide optimization options, which may be iteratively applied and simulated until the desired application performance is achieved.