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October 14, 2025

# Will the tests overload my server?

## Calibrate your expectations the way we calibrated our scanners

#### These are the testing details:

- Peak bandwidth: 0.5 Gbps
- Peak requests per second: 50 RPS
- Peak Queries for DNS Zone Walking: N/A

Please note that the total traffic generated during a scan **can vary significantly depending on the website**.

For sites with a large amount of content - such as videos, audio files, or large PDFs - the number of requests made per scan, as well as the size of each request, can be substantially higher.

As such, total traffic is highly dependent on the structure and content of the web application being scanned.

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