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How fast is your web host? Dozens of PHP speed tests, 1 overall grade: The easy way to compare hosting performance.
<h3>Bringing Transparency to Your Web Host’s PHP Performance</h3>
The faster your websites run, the better. Better SEO, better UX, better returns on your effort. But in any PHP-based system (including WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento, and many others) there’s an important performance factor that’s hard for you to see and mostly beyond your control. It’s your web hosting. How fast does PHP run on the infrastructure that your web host provides?
PHP Vitals gives you a simple way to find out.
<h3>A Free, Quick and Easy Speed Test</h3>
In a minute or two, PHP Vitals analyses exactly how well your server performs on dozens of different tests of PHP performance. When you run PHP Vitals you’ll see an overall grade, and you can see where your web host belongs on the PHP Vitals leaderboard.
You can’t see your server hardware. You don’t know how many others are sharing your resources. You don’t know if your hosting is rate-limited, over-provisioned, or dependent on ancient CPUs. PHP Vitals lifts the lid on what you’re really getting for your money.
<h3>What Gets Tested</h3>
PHP Vitals focuses on base PHP functions. Base categories are: 
– <code>php_features</code> 
– <code>math</code> 
– <code>string</code> 
– <code>array</code> 
– <code>crypto</code> 
– <code>file</code> 
– <code>serialization</code>
Specific operations that are tested include: 
– PHP Class (getter/setter). 
– Public properties and methods. 
– Simple math operations. 
– Complex math operations. 
– String concatenations. 
– Regular expressions (regex). 
– Functions: explode, strpos. 
– Operations: Array sorting, set, unset, copy, and others. 
– Password hashing. 
– MD5 hashing. 
– SHA256 hashing.
There are no MySQL or database benchmarks included.
<h3>Features</h3>
PHP Vitals suite of PHP performance benchmarking tests usually takes only 1-2 minutes to run. The tests give you live performance data.
Each time you run PHP Vitals you’ll see a breakdown of individual test data and an overall grade (A+ to F). Test data is objective, for example the time taken for each test. Grades are based on the overall time taken. The subjective grading scale is likely to change over time (e.g. an A in 2025 is unlikely to still be an A in 2027).
With the option to submit test results to the PHP Vitals leaderboard, you can let developers around the world see a summary of your results, and the hosting provider that it came from. Sharing is optional and no personal data is collected, shared or stored.
PHP Vitals data is presented through a beautiful and responsive admin interface. Run and share tests on demand, and build up a history of performance grades over time.
<h3>Usage on WordPress</h3>
PHP Vitals is very straightforward. Install the plugin, open “PHP Vitals” from the main menu in your WordPress admin dashboard, and click “Run Benchmark”.
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin connects to <a href="https://phpvitals.com" rel="nofollow ugc">PHP Vitals</a> to compare the user’s benchmark test results (This is an optional service).
If the “Compare my Results” option is active, each time the user runs the Benchmark Test their results will be shared with PHP Vitals.
This service is provided by PHP Vitals: <a href="https://phpvitals.com/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>, <a href="https://phpvitals.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Use</a>

PHP Vitals

How fast is your web host? Dozens of PHP speed tests, 1 overall grade: The easy way to compare hosting performance.

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CPU performance testing: 
This plugin does various calculations and string manipulations on your PHP webserver 
and your MySQL database server. To further test the MySQL server, a sequence of MySQL 
inserts, selects, updates and deletes are performed in a separate custom database table 
(we do not use your WordPress tables for this).
Network testing: 
The network is tested by fetching directly from Google’s CDN / apis network. Fetching from the Google 
apis network gives you the nearest server, and will give more accurate results. We also fetch a small 1Mb 
file from our servers as well in case the Google apis is down. The network tests are not yet shown in the 
graphs, we are working on this 🙂
Results: 
After the sequence of tests has finished, the results will be displayed for you to evaluate. MySQL results can 
vary depending on the type of connection your webserver has to the MySQL server. If a “local socket” connection 
is used a typical result for the MySQL query test is 0.05-0.25 seconds. Web hosting providers with dedicated MySQL 
servers will show a slower time/queries per second, as a TCP/IP connection to the MySQL server is made instead of 
a local socket connection.
There are many factors that will determine how fast your website will run. This plugin does not test 
for how many hits/requests per second your provider allows to your website, file system performance is not tested 
either. Use it as a performance test to assess how fast a CPU your provider has allocated to your webserver 
and your MySQL database backend.
Share with your friends, let’s start a competition and see who’s got the fastests servers (hint) 🙂

PHP/MySQL CPU performance statistics

Benchmarks PHP and MySQL and does various performance analysis on these. Especially MySQL analysis is good.

In general benchmarks are short, but quite informative.

Works well and does various important tests

I had to measure the performance of my two local machines (a laptop and a desktop). This plugin came in handy to do exactly that. I only wish that there was a way to export the results for future ref!

Handy

With the performance test plugin you can test the CPU and MySQL speed on your webserver and your MySQL server.

PHP Vitals vs PHP/MySQL CPU performance statistics