If you tick on the "Download images" in the HTTP Request GUI, to make the sample download images and other resources referenced on the web page, and you are testing a URL which will return a redirect that the sampler follows, then you can see in the "ViewFullResultsVisualizer" that the sampler will actually download all the references resources twice. In fact, I think it will download it as many times as it follows a redirect for the sample.
Created attachment 20009 [details] Test plan to show the problem If you run this test plan, and look in the "View Results Tree", and expand the nodes, you will see that images and javascript and css files are downloaded twice.
Created attachment 20010 [details] Suggested patch The suggested patch makes the images and other resources only be downloaded for the sample that sampling the url one was redirected to. The patch also takes away incorrect "TO-DO" text for following redirects in Norwegian message file.
Thanks. Patch applied in r531180 BTW, I just removed the English translation for "follow_redirects" - if a property is missing, it should pick up the default English translation anyway.
This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/issues/1918