jMeter Multiple HTTP Requests

Question

I want to test a fully functioning website for load using a constant, known number of users - to that end I'm trying to recreate the "Retrieved All Embedded Resources" functionality for a web-page, only manually, because I really don't know if it fetches all resources grabbed by JS. So the first question is - how do I check to see what these subsequent fetches retrieve?

Second question is - how do I make the multiple requests atomic, like "Retrieve All Embedded Resources"? I need to use "Constant Throughput Timer" for making sure the number of vusers is constant, but: When using "Retrieve All Embedded Resources", this counts as one request, and one thread handles it right (hopefully, again - can't tell what goes on beyond the scenes) When using a recorded session with numerous elements, each element is one action and occupies the queue (counts as 1 sample for Constant Throughput Timer). Therefore, it's not atomic.

I guess I can count the elements and define them as number of samples for throughput per minute, but this won't do in the long run.

Answer 1

First of all, jmeter does not execute any javascript in the pages retrieved. Clicking "Retrieve all embedded resources" does the following if you check the documentation:

Tell JMeter to parse the HTML file and send HTTP/HTTPS requests for all images, Java applets, JavaScript files, CSSs, etc. referenced in the file.

So it will check the current sample for any references and retrieve those, but it will not run any scripts that are retrieved.

If you want to check which resources jmeter is actually retrieving you could run for example Fiddler to check which requests are being made.

Answer 2

You can use Transaction Controller to consider all embedded resources requests and master request as one sample, aggregate time will be logged and reported.