What is the difference between SPECweb99 and other web server benchmarks?
SPECweb99 is a standardized test. The SPEC membership – leading vendors, systems integrators, universities, research organizations, publishers and consultants – has agreed on a single benchmark with one standardized implementation and workload. Before any SPECweb99 results are published, SPEC requires that the system under test and the methodology used adhere to agreed-upon standards (the run rules). All results available through SPEC include full disclosure information that reveals exactly what configurations have been used to obtain a particular result. SPECweb99 results published on SPEC’s web site provide standardized, comparable results for those who cannot run their own web server performance tests.
