Webslice

<p>How fast is your web host? Dozens of PHP speed tests, 1 overall grade: The easy way to compare hosting performance.</p>
<h3>Bringing Transparency to Your Web Host’s PHP Performance</h3>
<p>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?</p>
<p>PHP Vitals gives you a simple way to find out.</p>
<h3>A Free, Quick and Easy Speed Test</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>What Gets Tested</h3>
<p>PHP Vitals focuses on base PHP functions. Base categories are:<br />
– <code>php_features</code><br />
– <code>math</code><br />
– <code>string</code><br />
– <code>array</code><br />
– <code>crypto</code><br />
– <code>file</code><br />
– <code>serialization</code></p>
<p>Specific operations that are tested include:<br />
– PHP Class (getter/setter).<br />
– Public properties and methods.<br />
– Simple math operations.<br />
– Complex math operations.<br />
– String concatenations.<br />
– Regular expressions (regex).<br />
– Functions: explode, strpos.<br />
– Operations: Array sorting, set, unset, copy, and others.<br />
– Password hashing.<br />
– MD5 hashing.<br />
– SHA256 hashing.</p>
<p>There are no MySQL or database benchmarks included.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<p>PHP Vitals suite of PHP performance benchmarking tests usually takes only 1-2 minutes to run. The tests give you live performance data.</p>
<p>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).</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Usage on WordPress</h3>
<p>PHP Vitals is very straightforward. Install the plugin, open “PHP Vitals” from the main menu in your WordPress admin dashboard, and click “Run Benchmark”.</p>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>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).</p>
<p>If the “Compare my Results” option is active, each time the user runs the Benchmark Test their results will be shared with PHP Vitals.</p>
<p>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></p>


PHP Vitals

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

kohashi

<p>WPPerformanceTester was written as a tool to benchmark WordPress in the <a href="http://reviewsignal.com/blog/2015/07/28/wordpress-hosting-performance-benchmarks-2015/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks (2015)</a> by <a href="http://reviewsignal.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Review Signal</a>. Current benchmarks are on <a href="https://wphostingbenchmarks.com" rel="nofollow ugc">WPHostingBenchmarks.com</a>. It was designed to test the server’s performance by stressing PHP, MySql and running $wpdb queries.</p>
<p>WPPerformanceTester performs the following tests</p>
<ul>
<li>Math – 100,000 math function tests</li>
<li>String Manipulation – 100,000 string manipulation tests</li>
<li>Loops – 1,000,000 loop iterations</li>
<li>Conditionals – 1,000,000 conditional logic checks</li>
<li>MySql (connect, select, version, aes_encrypt) – basic mysql functions and 5,000,000 AES_ENCRYPT() iterations</li>
<li>\$wpdb – 250 insert, select, update and delete operations through \$wpdb</li>
</ul>
<p>It also allows you to see how your server’s performance stacks up against our industry benchmark. Our industry benchmark is the average of all submitted test results.</p>
<h3>Notes on Performance</h3>
<p>Performance can be measured in a lot of ways. WPPerformanceTester was simply one component of a much larger performance benchmark. It tests a single server (or node) that it is running on. So if you’re considering looking at the results from a clustered or distributed setup, it may give you limited insight into how well your whole system performs. WPPerformanceTester is about the raw speed a system has to execute code and perform database operations.</p>
<p>Real website performance isn’t always correlated with raw speed. A seemingly slow website could have a very fast WPPerformanceTester result. There are lots of layers (namely caching) in making a WordPress website fast. A good caching layer will almost always outperform computing power. But when the caching layers are equal, raw speed can make a difference.</p>
<p>WPPerformanceTester is simply one tool to add to your toolkit in measuring performance. You should have a variety of others to test other facets of performance.</p>
<h3>Known Issues</h3>
<p>If the script times out (max_execution_time limit) it will not show any results. You can solve this by increasing the max_execution_time in the php.ini. Some plugins may also cause WPPerformanceTester to run exceptionally slow and make it more likely to hit this limit. One such plugin is VersionPress. You can temporarily disable plugins that might be interfering with it as an alternative way to run it.</p>
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<p><strong>Note:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>It’s always best to <strong>BACKUP EVERYTHING</strong> before running <strong>ANY</strong> new plugin or making changes to your WordPress install.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>


WPPerformanceTester

WPPerformanceTester benchmarks your server's performance through a variety of PHP, MySql and WordPress tests

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