As the tool developer put it

Siege is an http load testing and benchmarking utility. It was designed to let web developers measure their code under duress, to see how it will stand up to load on the internet.

That comes in handy when developing applications to ensure that developed solutions can scale to handle several hundred or thousand concurrent users. This guide would not go into the details of testing but would help get the tool installed on your device which is an important prerequisite.

Installing Siege HTTP

• First, open up the Terminal app or iTerm2 or any other terminal application you use. For this guide, we would be saving the downloaded archive in the Downloads directory.

• Run the following commands in the open terminal

cd ~/Downloads
curl -O http://download.joedog.org/siege/siege-latest.tar.gz

• Next, extract the downloaded archive using the following commands

tar -xvf siege-latest.tar.gz

• Change to the archive directory

cd siege-latest

• Configure and build it!

./configure
make
make install

• Verify the install was successful

siege -V

## SIEGE 4.0.4

And you are done.

Cheers.