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24 alternatives to dperf

100Gbps network performance and load tester

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. dperf launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Test your website load speed from 6 locations at once

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    The Internet’s fastest, privacy-first DNS resolver

    2018 · one.one.one.one · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone, I recently published a small open-source project. It’s a minimal network packet analyzer written in Go — designed more like a learning toy than a replacement for Wireshark. It currently supports parsing basic protocols like TLS, DNS, and HTTP, and includes a tiny fuzzing engine to test payload responses. You can inspect raw packet content directly from the terminal. The output is colored for readability, and the code structure is kept simple and clear. The entire program is very small — just about 400 lines of Go code. I know it’s not anywhere near Wireshark’s level, and I still…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! Lev and Justin here, authors of PgDog (https://pgdog.dev/), a connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder for PostgreSQL. If you build apps with a lot of traffic, you know the first thing to break is the database. We are solving this with a network proxy that works without requiring application code changes or database migrations. Our post from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099187 The most important update: we are in production. Sharding is used a lot, with direct-to-shard queries (one shard per query) working pretty much…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Articles in this series Part I. Iterative ServersPart II. Forking ServersPart III. Pre-forking ServersPart IV. Threaded ServersPart V. Pre-threaded ServersPart VI: poll-based serverPart VII: epoll-…

    2019 · unixism.net · its alternatives →

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    The world’s most trusted internet speedtest

    2016 · beta.speedtest.net · its alternatives →

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    Benchmark proxies for reliable, target-specific scraping

    Aug 2026 · scrapeops.io · its alternatives →

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    PgDog▲227

    Scale PostgreSQL without changing your app

    Jul 2026 · pgdog.dev · its alternatives →

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    Test page speed and get recommendations to improve load time

    2023 · debugbear.com · its alternatives →

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    oatpp benchmark for 2 Million fully-loaded concurrent websocket connections.

    2019 · oatpp.io · its alternatives →

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    k6 is an open-source tool and cloud service that makes load testing easy for developers and QA engineers.

    2017 · k6.io · its alternatives →

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    Direktor▲119

    A/B testing as easy as short URLs

    2019 · direktor.io · its alternatives →

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    PerfOps▲93

    Smart global traffic, load-balancing and analytics

    2019 · perfops.net · its alternatives →

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    Test website load speed from 18 cities, including 3 in China

    2019 · chinafy.com · its alternatives →

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    pg_netstat is a Postgres extension to monitor database network traffic. It uses libpcap to capture packets and aggregates at user-specified interval.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    LoadForge is a modern, fully featured load testing platform, perfect for your next web application.

    2021 · loadforge.com · its alternatives →

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    DNSPerf▲91

    Free DNS performance analytics

    2018 · dnsperf.com · its alternatives →

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    Senior full stack software engineer with 8+ years shipping production systems in React, Node.js, Python, and Rails. Previously a Product Engineer at Ghost. Based in South Korea.

    2021 · ronaldlangeveld.com · its alternatives →

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    Multiple▲117

    Load Testing Built for Developers

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Multi location based load testing

    2021 · getanteon.com · its alternatives →

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    Command line tool to test speeds of DNS resolves by location

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Loadero▲68

    Load and performance test solution for web based solutions

    2023 · loadero.com · its alternatives →

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    Balter (Build A Load TestER) is a distributed load/stress testing framework for Rust. It leverages the tokio ecosystem to make it simple to write normal Rust code which auto-scales to meet TPS requirements or to scale indefinitely until a certain error rate. Using Balter is straightforward, and load testing code looks like the following (note that its just normal Rust code, no DSL to learn). use balter::prelude::*; use std::time::Duration; #[tokio::main] async fn main() { my_scenario() .tps(500) .duration(Duration::from_secs(30)) .await; my_scenario() .saturate()…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I built a CLI to benchmark DNS resolvers after discovering DNS was adding 300ms to my API requests. v0.3.0 just released with new features: compare: Test single domain across all resolvers top: Rank resolvers by latency/reliability/balanced monitor: Continuous tracking with threshold alerts 1,400+ downloads in first week. Quick start: pip install dns-benchmark-tool dns-benchmark compare --domain google.com CLI stays free forever. Hosted version (multi-region, historical tracking, alerts) coming Q1 2026. GitHub: https://github.com/frankovo/dns-benchmark-tool…

    Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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