Natural WordPress benchmarking

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I am planning on benchmarking various OS and HTTP daemons to host my WordPress site. A well-known (free) tool to benchmark Web servers is ApacheBench. But it can only use a single URL for each benchmark session. A trick to achieve natural benchmarking on WordPress, or “simulate real users browsing as much as possible”, is to use a random generated content ; using the ?orderby=rand parameter. This will allow the Web server to be used as if several users were doing real things ; that is, reading various content:

# ab -n 20 -c 5 "http://www.tumfatig.net/?orderby=rand"
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
(...)
Concurrency Level:      5
Time taken for tests:   31.190 seconds
Complete requests:      20
(...)
Requests per second:    0.64 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       7797.489 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       1559.498 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
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Written by Joel Carnat

Last modified on Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:50:16 +0000

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2 Responses to “Natural WordPress benchmarking”

  1. Joel Carnat says:
    Mon, 16 May 2011 21:17:58 +0000 at 21:17

    Using Ubuntu 11.04 on a Dell XPS M1330 with local Apache and MySQL, ab says:

    # ab -n 20 -c 5 "http://www.tumfatig.net/?orderby=rand";
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 < $Revision: 655654 $>
(...)
Concurrency Level: 5
Time taken for tests: 9.005 seconds
Complete requests: 20
(...)
Requests per second: 2.22 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 2251.319 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 450.264 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
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  2. ptiJo says:
    Tue, 17 May 2011 20:29:45 +0000 at 20:29

    Using NetBSD 5.1 on the same Dell XPS M1330 with local Apache and MySQL, ab says:

    # ab -n 20 -c 5 "http://www.tumfatig.net/?orderby=rand"
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3
(...)
Concurrency Level:      5
Time taken for tests:   9.316 seconds
Complete requests:      20
(...)
Requests per second:    2.15 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       2329.002 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       465.800 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
(...)
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