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You can benchmark Apache, IIS and other web server with apache benchmarking tool called ab.

Examine how to determine the root cause of Web performance problems. Without proper measurement, how do you know whether your Web application is performing well? By using open source tools such as the RRDtool, you can graph the key performance measurements of any Web application, use these graphs to determine the impact of changes in the environment, or point to changes that need addressing.

Httperf is a tool for measuring web server performance. It provides a flexible facility for generating various HTTP workloads and for measuring server performance. The three distinguishing characteristics of httperf are its robustness, which includes the ability to generate and sustain server overload, support for the HTTP/1.1 and SSL protocols, and its extensibility to new workload generators and performance measurements.