%% Last Updated: - [[2021-04-01]] %% With more and more people browsing the internet on their mobile devices, it’s worth considering how big an effect users’ networks have on their experience of your application. If your app is an internal company portal, this probably won’t matter, but if it’s a web app that is meant to be accessed both on desktops and mobiles, you can’t discount the effect of slow 3G networks. While you can’t control users’ network speeds, what you can do is simulate them by throttling the bandwidth available so that you can see how quickly your application would respond for them. Most load test tools can do this, and you may be able to determine how many of your users access your app on slower connections by looking at your analytics. If you decide that this is in scope, you can then build it into your scripts so that your tests will also show you response times on different types of networks. ## Related - [[Network bandwidth throttling]] - [[Workload Modeling]]