What is the difference between new and returning visitors?
When StressMy.com creates a simulated visitor, that visitor is assigned a role of either new or returning based on the mix parameter you supplied when defining the test. Once created, a visitor will not change its role and will continue to follow its assigned Visitor experience until the test completes. A visitor’s new or returning role affects how that visitor handles cookies and graphics. A new visitor will always download a graphics image found in a page sent from your application. During a single iteration, that graphic will be added to a graphics cache and will not be fetched again during that iteration. At the end of an iteration of a Visitor Experience, the visitor’s graphics cache will be cleared out and the visitor begins another iteration of its Visitor Experience. The visitor will once again download graphics the first time they are encountered in its Visitor Experience. A visitor assigned the returning role does not erase the graphics cache at the end of an iteration and th
