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 ## What is it?
 
-Apache JMeter is a 100% pure Java application designed to test
+Apache JMeter may be used to test performance both on static and dynamic resources, Web dynamic applications.
-and measure performance.  It may be used as a highly portable 
+It can be used to simulate a heavy load on a server, group of servers, network or object to test its strength or to analyze overall performance under different load types.
-server benchmark as well as multi-client load generator.
 
 Apache JMeter features include:
 
-Ability to load and performance test many different server/protocol types:
+Ability to load and performance test many different applications/server/protocol types: 
- -  Web - HTTP, HTTPS
+ -  Web - HTTP, HTTPS (Java, NodeJS, PHP, ASP.NET,...)
- -  SOAP / REST
+ -  SOAP / REST Webservices
  -  FTP
  -  Database via JDBC
  -  LDAP
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  -  Mail - SMTP(S), POP3(S) and IMAP(S)
  -  Native commands or shell scripts
  -  TCP
+ -  Java Objects
+
+Full featured Test IDE that allows fast Test Plan **recording (from Browsers or native applications), building and debugging.**
+
+[** Command-line mode (Non GUI / headless mode)**](http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/get-started.html#non_gui) to load test from any Java compatible OS (Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, ...)
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+A complete and [** ready to present dynamic HTML report**](http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/generating-dashboard.html)
+
+[**Live reporting**](http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/realtime-results.html) into 3rd party databases like InfluxDB or Graphite
+
+Easy correlation through ability to extract data from most popular response formats, [**HTML**](http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/component_reference.html#CSS/JQuery_Extractor), [**JSON**](http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/component_reference.html#JSON_Extractor), [**XML**](http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/component_reference.html#XPath_Extractor) or [**any textual format**](http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/component_reference.html#Regular_Expression_Extractor)
+
+Complete portability and 100% Java purity
 
 Full multi-threading framework allows concurrent sampling by many threads
 and simultaneous sampling of different functions by separate thread groups.
-Careful GUI design allows faster Test Plan building and debugging.
+
 Caching and offline analysis/replaying of test results.
 
 Highly Extensible core:
  -  Pluggable Samplers allow unlimited testing capabilities.
- -  Several load statistics may be chosen with pluggable timers.
+ -  ** Scriptable Samplers ** (JSR223-compatible languages like Groovy)
- -  Data analysis and visualization plugins allow great extensibility and personalization.
+ -  Several load statistics may be chosen with ** pluggable timers**.
+ -  Data analysis and **visualization plugins** allow great extensibility and personalization.
  -  Functions can be used to provide dynamic input to a test or provide data manipulation.
- -  Scriptable Samplers (Groovy, BeanShell, BSF- and JSR223- compatible languages)
+ -  Easy Continuous Integration through 3rd party Open Source libraries for Maven, Graddle and Jenkins
 
 
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