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Quick and dirty WordPress speed comparison

July 6, 2011 in Benchmarks, Web hosting with 0 Comments

This is just a quick benchmark of WordPress release 2.8.6, 2.9.2, 3.0.6, 3.1.4 and 3.2.

The test was done on a 512MB rackspace instance, running Ubuntu 10.10. With the following packages installed with default configuration: libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server php5-mysql. Benchmark was done with ab, doing 10 000 requests to the front page, over 10 concurrent connections.

This is the result, in requests delivered per second:

Clearly, speed isn’t that much improved with the release of 3.2. However, this benchmark only tested the front page with the sample post.

WordPress 3.2 beta 1 speedtest

May 14, 2011 in Benchmarks, Web hosting with 1 Comment

With every new WordPress release, things seems to be getting slower. But not anymore? With the release of WordPress 3.2 developers state that performance is getting better.

The test was done on a 512MB rackspace instance, running Ubuntu 10.10. With the following packages installed with default configuration: libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server php5-mysql. Benchmark was done with ab, doing 10 000 requests to the front page, over 10 concurrent connections. Both blogs used the Twenty Ten 1.2 theme, and the supplied sample post.

This is the result, in requests delivered per second:

As you can see, things aren’t any faster, yet. But this is still a beta, and i only tested the performance of the front page, nothing else. I also tried the Twenty Eleven theme, but that wasn’t any faster.

WordPress 3 speedtest

June 17, 2010 in Benchmarks with 1 Comment

WordPress 3 was released today, I’ve previously benchmarked beta 1 and beta 2 but now it’s time to test the real thing.

The test was done on a 512MB rackspace instance, running Ubuntu 10.04. With the following packages installed with default configuration: libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server php5-mysql. Benchmark was done with ab, doing 10 000 requests over 10 concurrent connections. This is the result, in requests delivered per second:

The WordPress installations only contained the default sample post with one comment.

It doesn’t come as a chock that with more functionality comes more complex (slower) code. But with that said, it’s also sad to lose around 15 % of the performance. The impact, however, should be minimal if a good cache plugin is used.

WordPress 3 beta 2 speedtest

May 8, 2010 in Benchmarks with 0 Comments

I’ve previously benchmarked WordPress 3 beta 1 with the conclusion that it’s slower than its predecessor. Two days ago beta 2 was released, so here’s a similar speedtest.

The test was done on a 512MB rackspace instance, running Ubuntu 10.04. With the following packages installed with default configuration: libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server php5-mysql. Benchmark was done with ab, doing 10 000 requests over 10 concurrent connections. This is the result, in requests delivered per second:

The WordPress installations only contained the default sample post with one comment.

And again, performance has decreased with this new release.

WordPress 3 beta 1 speedtest

April 13, 2010 in Benchmarks with 2 Comments

On April 3rd the WordPress team released WordPress 3 beta 1. But how does it compare to WordPress 2, speed wise?

I’ve tested both on a 512MB Rackspace instance running Ubuntu 9.10. With the following packages installed with default configuration: libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server php5-mysql. Benchmark was done with ab, doing 10 000 requests over 10 concurrent connections. This is the result, in requests delivered per second:

The WordPress installations only contained the default sample post with one comment.

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