How to simulate web traffic to test performance of a website

I think what you are looking for is Jmeter’s Access Log Sampler:
https://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/component_reference.html#Access_Log_Sampler

You can use that to replay your Apache logs at various volumes and concurrences.

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