RETAIL
Seamless shopping experiences,
even under extreme load
Your customers demand a seamless checkout, especially during peak moments like Black Friday. Gatling enables you to simulate realistic shopping journeys, complex payment flows, and global traffic surges to guarantee your site stays fast, reliable, and crash-free under any load.
Trusted by leading retail and e-commerce brands
READY FOR PEAK SEASON?
Retail scenarios we handle
When seconds of downtime cost millions, speed and reliability are non-negotiable. Gatling helps you find and fix performance bottlenecks, before they impact your customers.
Limited-time offers drive massive traffic spikes that can overwhelm your infrastructure and crash your site during peak revenue opportunities.
Slow checkout processes lead to cart abandonment. Studies show 57% of users abandon if pages take more than 3 seconds to load.
With 55% of e-commerce traffic on mobile, poor mobile performance directly impacts conversions and revenue.
Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and holiday shopping create 10x traffic increases that require careful capacity planning.
Our aggregation model processes metrics asynchronously, with zero blocking or manual correlation. This allows real-time dashboards, deep insights, and horizontal scalability across distributed load generators.
A 1-second delay in page load time can reduce conversions by 7% and customer satisfaction by 16%.
SOLUTION OVERVIEW
Enterprise Edition
for retail
Comprehensive performance testing solutions designed for the unique challenges of online retail.
Realistic customer journey
Simulate complete shopping experiences from browsing to checkout, testing every step of your customer funnel under realistic load conditions.
Traffic at scale
Model actual shopping patterns with burst traffic, gradual ramp-ups, and sustained peak loads to match real-world scenarios.
Integration testing
Validate performance of payment processors, shipping calculators, and inventory APIs under load to prevent cascade failures.
Mobile and app testing
Ensure mobile apps and in-app purchase flows perform flawlessly, even under peak usage.
CI/CD ready
Automate performance testing in your deployment pipelines to catch regressions early.
Actionable analytics
Gain deep insights into response times, errors, and bottlenecks with detailed reports for both technical and business teams.
FEATURE TOOLKIT
The features you need to build seamless customer experiences
Simulate real shopping journeys, payment gateways, and global traffic patterns with a flexible, code-driven approach. Gatling’s powerful SDKs (Java, Scala, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript) let you design, version, and customize every aspect of your performance tests, tailored to the unique challenges of modern retail platforms.
High-traffic checkout and payments
By combining Gatling’s code-based approach with powerful data feeders, parameterization, and correlation, you can simulate thousands of unique user journeys that reflect real-world variables such as promo codes, payment gateways (e.g., PayPal, Stripe), and third-party APIs.
Protocol diversity
Whether your platform includes real-time stock updates over WebSockets or secure backend APIs, Gatling’s protocol-specific engines ensure accurate simulation of user interactions and system dependencies.
Global traffic generation
You can deploy distributed load generators across multiple geographic regions to replicate your customers’ actual locations and network conditions. This ensures that your tests reflect latency variations, regional traffic surges, and CDN behaviors.
Multiple run comparison
Gatling provides built-in capabilities to compare test results across multiple runs, allowing you to track performance trends over time. Whether you are rolling out a new product collection, updating your checkout system, or scaling infrastructure, you can benchmark each iteration against previous runs.
Custom traffic profiles
Retail traffic is rarely linear, and Gatling enables you to model it with precision. From gradual ramp-ups during early sales campaigns to sudden, high-intensity spikes during flash sales or product drops, Gatling’s flexible injection profiles allow you to script these patterns in detail. You can mix multiple user flows, control pacing, and even simulate “think times” or transaction delays to reproduce authentic customer behavior at scale.
Secret manager integration
Gatling integrates with enterprise-grade secret managers (e.g., AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault) to securely store and inject API keys, payment credentials, and third-party service tokens into your load tests.
“Gatling has been a game-changer for our performance testing. The ability to simulate real-world loads and automatically test our platform’s response to high traffic has ensured that we maintain top performance, even as our business grows.”
Pierre Pommerel,
Solution Architect
“Gatling has become an integral part of our CI/CD pipeline. We run daily load tests, ensuring every change is stress-tested before it reaches production.”
Thomas Onken,
Software Developer
“We can track our performance over time and allow our development teams to automate the scenarios and runs. Gatling enabled us to automate the performance impact assessment of new feature delivery continuously and before releases.”
Simon Vos,
Technology Director
“In order to make sure interdiscount.ch was ready for Black Friday, we opted for Gatling Enterprise as our performance testing solution. The live dashboards are a real benefit as they let us see exactly when the website is slowing down during a performance test.”
Joel Rittener
Senior Application Manager
Ready to handle
peak traffic?
Don't let performance issues cost you revenue during your busiest shopping periods.