Chapter 2 GatherinG requirements Table 2-11. Peak Load and Normal Load Analysis Page/Response time. Peak Load (Seconds) Normal Load (Seconds) transaction 3 2.3 account 3 2 Dashboard 6 4 6 Peak Load. 4 Normal Load. Work Load. 3 4.5 Daily 3 2.6 2.6 2.6 2 1 1.5 9 10 12 15 18 20 22 3 Time of Day. Figure 2-8. Normal load and peak load When defining the workload for a new application and no existing workload data exists while the system is being developed, the temptation is to specify a high peak workload. Page Hits Analysis You need to consider page response time at normal and peak load for various geographical locations, where you are providing business to your users. This will help you to understand and divide the loads according to the available infrastructure on the basis of workload profile. • Page response time at normal and peak loads for (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) HTTP or (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) HTTPs pages 48