What is SPECweb2005?
SPECweb2005 is a software benchmark product developed by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), a non-profit group of computer vendors, system integrators, universities, research organizations, publishers, and consultants. It is designed to measure a system’s ability to act as a web server servicing static and dynamic page requests. SPECweb2005 is the successor of SPECweb99 and SPECweb99_SSL, offering the capabilities of measuring both SSL and non-SSL request/response performance, and continues the tradition of giving Web users the most objective and most representative benchmark for measuring web server performance. Rather than offering a single benchmark workload that attempts to approximate the breadth of web server workload characteristics found today, SPECweb2005 has chosen a 3-workload benchmark design: banking, ecommerce, and support. Additionally, the change from a concurrent connection-based workload metric to a simultaneous session-based workload metric is in
