Changelog 2025.07

Playwright Test Support Early Access

July has been dedicated to only one feature, which is Playwright Test support. This has been a considerable effort on our end, but should be very nice if you already have Playwright Test suites that you’d like to use for load testing and monitoring!

Please email help@loadster.com if you’d like to try it ahead of the public launch.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a layout issue with the monitor status bars on a hosted status page, to make the bar segments more correctly proportioned.
• Improved time range precision on incident durations for human readability.
• Removed certain details from the logs that are sent out in monitoring pass/fail emails.
• Fixed a potential browser crash due to a memory leak related to date parsing!
• Corrected a discrepancy in overall load test network throughput measurements caused by the Chrome browsers themselves downloading updates at startup, unrelated to the actual traffic in the load test.

Further Reading

Playwright Test support gives you a different approach to scripting compared to Browser Bots. While Browser Bots let you record interactions visually and build scripts without writing code, Playwright Test scripts are written in JavaScript and give you full programmatic control. Both approaches use real Chromium browsers under the hood, so the load they generate is realistic either way.