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A simple tool to benchmark web performance is Apachebench — which comes bundled with the Apache web server. To understand how a system as a whole performs you’ll need something more advanced but to just test how long it takes a page to load it works fine.

The graph above[1] expands on where I started profiling the WordPress regression. I’ve added the full 10 post frontpage and a single larger page — with rather lousy performance — and the work so far to remedy it which looks alot better. (more…)

I’ve been benchmarking stock WordPress today to get performance numbers for the Cache Translation Object plugin. As I had things set up for it I also tested  the latest major releases – unmodified, clean installations – and found a 40% regression when going from 2.7 to 2.8.

Update: what I measure here is basically the clean startup time, which doesn’t say what the final effect will be on your site with a real theme, plugins and, you know, actual content.

There is often a battle between features, complexity and performance. This unfortunately natural tendency prevalent among programmers should however not result in such a drastic regression.

Update 2: More on this here.

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