Matt Schmitz
Director of Load and Performance Testing, Dotcom-Monitor
Matt Schmitz is Director of Load and Performance Testing at Dotcom-Monitor, where he leads the LoadView product. He has been with the company since 2012, starting as a Web Performance Engineer and then Senior Web Performance Engineer.
He helps teams understand how their applications behave under real-world conditions, with a focus on enterprise-scale load testing, capacity planning and getting ready for peak traffic. He is based in Minneapolis-St. Paul and studied at the University of Minnesota.
Areas of expertise
- Load and stress testing
- Performance tuning and profiling
- Capacity planning
- Peak traffic readiness
- Web performance engineering
- Benchmarking
Elsewhere
Guides
- Cloud vs. On-Premise Load Testing: An ROI Comparison
- Concurrent User Testing from the Cloud
- Endurance Testing and Its Importance for System Stability
- How to Analyze Your Load Test Results
- Scalability Testing and Performance Tools
- The Importance of ROI on Load Testing
- What Is a Load Generator and How Does It Work?
- What Is Baseline Testing?
- What is Capacity Planning?
- What is Performance Bottleneck and How Can It Be Identified?
- What Is Performance Testing? Types, Process & Metrics
- What Is Throughput in Performance Testing?
- What Is Virtual User Simulation in Load Testing?
Articles
- How to Generate Realistic Traffic Patterns for Enterprise Applications
- What SEC Reg SCI Expects From Your Capacity and Stress Testing
- What DORA Auditors Expect From Your Load Testing
- How FFIEC Examiners Read Your Load Testing
- Load Testing Online Voting Systems for Traffic Spikes
- Why Realistic Load Testing Requires Multiple IP Addresses
- Virtual Waiting Room Load Testing
- Load Test Modeling: Sessions, Pacing & User Behavior
- How to Load Test a Website with Large Datasets
- How Third-Party Scripts Affect Load Testing Results
- High Concurrency Load Testing: Ticket Drops & Booking Surges
- Playwright Load Testing: How to Simulate Real Users at Scale
- How (and Why) to Load Test Before a Product Launch
- How to Load Test Progressive Web Apps (PWAs)
- How to Simulate Ecommerce Traffic Patterns in Load Tests
- How to Choose the Best Load Curve for Performance Testing
- Testing Video Calls: Finding Stress Points & Bottlenecks
- How to Size Load Tests: Three Practical Methods
- How to Load Test Auction Websites
- JMeter vs. LoadRunner for Performance Testing: Which is Better and Why?
- Load Testing with Screaming Frog and Why You Shouldn’t
- Load Testing with InfluxDB Test Datasets and Why It’s Not That Simple
- How to Load Test Multi-Tenant SaaS Applications for High Concurrency
- WooCommerce Load Testing: How to Ensure Stability on High-Traffic Days
- How to Load Test Shopify Apps for Scalability and High Performance
- How to Test Transaction Concurrency in Fintech Applications
- LoadView for Financial Website and Applications
- Preparing for March Madness: Load Testing Strategies with LoadView
- Load Testing Real-Time Analytics Dashboards: Performance Challenges and Solutions
- Optimizing Ecommerce Websites for Presidents’ Day Sales with LoadView
- How to Detect and Fix Memory Leaks in Prolonged Load Tests
- Prepare Your Website for Super Bowl Traffic with Load Testing
- Ensuring High Availability During Product Launches
- Preparing Your Website for Valentine’s Day Traffic with LoadView
- Frontend vs Backend Performance Testing
- Load Testing for Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)
- Optimizing Load Testing Scripts
- Understanding Load Testing Reports
- Preparing Your Website for Holiday Season Traffic
- Performance Tuning After Load Testing
- Preparing for Peak Traffic: Back-to-School Load Testing
- The Connection Between Load Testing and User Experience
- Clicks to Conversions: Optimizing Your Funnel with Load Testing
- Maximum Test Duration in Load Testing
- Types of Performance Testing Explained
- Load Testing VR Apps Explained
- SSO Load Testing Explained: Tools, Processes & More
- Performance Testing vs. Stress Testing vs. Load Testing
- 5 Most Common Database Performance Issues & Fixes
- Why You Need to Run a Website Stress Test Before Black Friday
- Should You Hire a Load Testing Consultant?
- How Long Should a Website Load Test Run?
- K6 Load Testing vs. LoadView
- Concurrent vs. Simultaneous User Testing Explained
- What is the difference between SoapUI and JMeter?
- Performance Engineering vs. Performance Testing
- Salesforce Performance Testing: How To, Best Practices, & Tools
- Load Testing Angular Applications
- Gatling Load Testing: How-To, Distributed Tests & Examples
- Performance Testing Planning: Entry and Exit Criteria
- Performance Testing vs. Scalability Testing
- The Importance of Ramp Up and Ramp Down User Load
- Types of Software Testing: Differences and Examples
- Load Testing Preparation Checklist
- Guidelines for Creating a Performance SLA
- Load Testing Applications Written in Vue.js
- How to Load Test a WordPress Website
- Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Performance Testing
- Omnichannel vs. Multichannel Experience Testing
- Load Testing a Magento E-commerce Application
- Load Testing Websites That Use Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)
- Load Testing Android Apps – Quick & Easy With LoadView
- Load Testing Tools: Gatling vs. JMeter vs. LoadView
- Why Traditional HTTP Load Testing Isn’t Enough for Modern Applications
- Geo-distributed Load Testing: Advantages, Importance, and Use Cases
- Load Testing in the Agile Process
- HTTP 2.0 Load Testing
- Load Testing OAuth Web APIs