Performance testing is crucial to determine that the web application under test will satisfy high load requirements. It can be used to analyze overall site performance under heavy load. Performance testing can be executed with the help of JMeter , since it offers following benefits: JMeter can be  used to test performance of both static resources such as JavaScript and HTML, as well as dynamic resources, such as JSP, Servlets, and AJAX JMeter can discover maximum number of concurrent users that your website can handle JMeter provides a variety of graphical analyses of performance reports Configure Performance Testing Environment for a website on JMeter Following are the steps carried out in performance testing: Test Plan Setup Test Plan is where overall settings for test is specified. It can be viewed as a container for running tests. It provides a framework in which it will execute a sequence of operations or tools to perform the testing. Give name for the Test plan.