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 $>
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Concurrency Level: 5
Time taken for tests: 31.190 seconds
Complete requests: 20
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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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