testing random pages for uptime (part of an SLA)

Question

We have outsourced hosting of a large website.

We have an SLA for response times of random pages. I.e. every minute a random page will be chosen from a pool of 30,000 pages and its response time recorded.

I know about Monitis, Pingdom, etc., but to my knowledge none of these services allow for the selection of random pages.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Answer 1

Selenium is a good tool for automated testing. You'll need to give it a list of random pages. You could construct this by putting a list of all 30,000 pages into an Excel spreadsheet, add another column containing the formulua =RAND() and then sorting by that column.

To measure response times you could use the Selenium timer extension.