After defining your users, you can move onto defining the tasks that they will be performing.

To begin with, you'll need to specify the default settings for your HTTP requests. Then you will add HTTP Request elements which use some of the default settings you specified here.

Begin by selecting the JMeter Users (Thread Group) element. Click your right mouse button to get the Add menu, and then select Add --> Config Element --> HTTP Request Defaults.

Then, select this new element to view its Control Panel.

Like most JMeter elements, the HTTP Request Defaults Control Panel has a name field that you can modify. In this example, leave this field with the default value.

Skip to the next field, which is the Web Server's Server Name/IP. For the Test Plan that you are building, all HTTP requests will be sent to the same Web server, jmeter.apache.org. Enter this domain name into the field. This is the only field that we will specify a default, so leave the remaining fields with their default values.