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Load up JMeter - [url[https://jmeter.apache.org/[/url] and give it a go. The problem is that everyone will have slightly different results because most are on different servers. What might be slow for you might be fine for me based on my server specs. Look at your peak load and then go from there. If you have 10 people online doing different things, write 10 different test that a typical user would do. Then increase the user load from 10 to 25, 50 etc. This will give you an idea of what you will need to do as your site grows. I would suggest a test environment and not running on a production site.
My guess is Brian has a baseline tests done and compares it with the latest build and then checks for variances. If it is good, that becomes the new baseline and the process repeats. The team knows that under those server specs, the system runs fne. The biggest hurdle with most applications, that I have found anyway, is the database load. Clustered servers are great or if you have mirrored databases with separate read/write calls is also a cool way to go. All boils down to cash though.
You can also use pingdom tools [url]https://tools.pingdom.com/[/url] to see how a page loads and the time to load each object,
