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Last updated on : 21 Jan 2025

Network Throttling for Real World Performance Testing

Overview

The Network Throttling feature allows users to simulate different network conditions while testing their websites, enabling a realistic evaluation of performance under varying bandwidth, latency, and connectivity scenarios.

By testing across multiple network profiles such as 2G, 3G, 4G, or custom throttled networks, teams can identify performance bottlenecks, loading delays, and usability issues that may impact users in real world conditions. This helps optimize application behavior, improve responsiveness, and ensure a consistent user experience across diverse network environments before release.

Prerequisites

• User must be registered Pcloudy account

Steps

1. Login to the Pcloudy platform

2. Select Real Devices on the Pcloudy Dashboard

3. Click on Mobile Browser on the Real Devices page

4. Enter the URL you would like to test, select the device and click on Start Testing

5. This will automatically open the URL on the device's browser.

6. Simply Allow the necessary permissions required to perform your testing tasks.

7. Use the Throttle Network option on the Left Panel to simulate and test your app across different network bandwidths.

8. Click on Throttle Network and Select the Network Profile you’d like to test your website on and click on Set.

9. The network changes will be applied on the connected device to test and monitor the performances across different network profiles.

Changing the Network Profile During a Session

• If a user needs to test the app on other network conditions during a session.

• The user can Unshape the current profile and start the process again.

pCloudy Network Profiles - Android

Network	Latency(ms)	Bandwidth-Upload/Download(kbps)	Packet loss(%)
4G-Advanced-Average	60	20000/30000	0
4G-LTE-Good	80	9000/18000	0
4G-LTE-Advanced	100	10000/14000	0
4G-LTE-Poor	80	3000/7000	1
3G-Poor	100	600/2000	1
3-5G-HSPA-Good	100	1500/7000	0
4G-LTE-Average	100	4400/10000	0

pCloudy Network Profiles - iOS

Network	Latency(ms)	Bandwidth-Upload/Download(kbps)	Packet loss(%)
4G-Advanced-Average	50	10000/50000	0
3G-Poor	80	256/2000	0.05

Select one of the options shown above, and the network conditions will be applied to the andorid/ iOS device connected.

Glossary of Terms

• PacketLoss – Network packet loss.

• Latency – Latency applied on packets in the Network. It shows the time that data takes to transfer across the network. Networks with a longer delay or lag have high latency.

• Bandwidth.in/ Bandwidth.out – Limitation of download and upload network bandwidth from the device.